{"id":183973,"date":"2024-02-29T01:23:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T07:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-safer-treatment-path-for-high-risk-children-to-overcome-food-allergies"},"modified":"2024-02-29T01:23:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T07:23:45","slug":"a-safer-treatment-path-for-high-risk-children-to-overcome-food-allergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-safer-treatment-path-for-high-risk-children-to-overcome-food-allergies","title":{"rendered":"A safer treatment path for high-risk children to overcome food allergies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-safer-treatment-path-for-high-risk-children-to-overcome-food-allergies3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from the University of British Columbia reveals a safe path to overcoming food allergies for older children and others who can\u2019t risk consuming allergens orally to build up their resistance.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/sublingual+immunotherapy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sublingual immunotherapy<\/a> (SLIT), and it involves placing smaller amounts of food allergens under the tongue.<\/p>\n<p>A study conducted by UBC clinical professor and pediatric allergist Dr. Edmond Chan and his team at BC Children\u2019s Hospital Research Institute found SLIT to be as safe and effective for high-risk <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/older+children\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">older children<\/a> and adolescents as oral <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immunotherapy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immunotherapy<\/a> is for preschoolers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the University of British Columbia reveals a safe path to overcoming food allergies for older children and others who can\u2019t risk consuming allergens orally to build up their resistance. It\u2019s called sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT), and it involves placing smaller amounts of food allergens under the tongue. A study conducted by UBC clinical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}