{"id":113,"date":"2017-01-16T11:25:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T11:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcns.scot.nhs.uk\/cyans\/?page_id=113"},"modified":"2023-12-14T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:26:45","slug":"curing-allergy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/families\/allergic-reactions-medication\/about-allergy\/curing-allergy\/","title":{"rendered":"Curing Allergy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Immunotherapy<\/strong>&nbsp;is the name for methods of trying to&nbsp;<strong>retrain the immune system<\/strong>&nbsp;to not be allergic any more. For some allergies, eg milk and egg, you can do this by carefully introducing a small amount of the food (when advised to do so) and then gradually building up the amount given as your body gets more used to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not something that we do for all allergies, as there is a risk of causing reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For moderate to severe bee\/wasp allergy, treatment with a course of venom injections is proven to work but is not available everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For hay fever, there are grass and tree pollen tablets and injections that significantly reduce symptoms (although maybe not until the year after you start treatment), given as a course each year for 1-3 years.&nbsp; These are unfortunately not currently available on the NHS in Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is good evidence for immunotherapy for peanut allergy where peanut flour or a commercial peanut extract is given every day, and the dose increased every 2 weeks, for 6 months.&nbsp; 91% of children in Andrew Clark\u2019s STOP study were then able to eat 5 peanuts without reacting.&nbsp; This is not however the same as a complete cure (skin prick tests remain positive), and some children suffered severe reactions during treatment, so this is not something to try at home!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further research is on going, but&nbsp;<strong>no treatment is currently available on the NHS in Scotland.<\/strong>&nbsp;More research can be found here at the&nbsp;<strong>Cambridge Peanut Allergy Clinic<\/strong>&nbsp;website&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peanut.cuh.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.peanut.cuh.org.uk\/<\/a>&nbsp;for more information about the only private service available in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">Immunotherapy&nbsp;is the name for methods of trying to&nbsp;retrain the immune system&nbsp;to not be allergic any more. For some allergies, eg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":100,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-113","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6336,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions\/6336"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}