Peanut Oral Immunotherapy in Children: An Italian Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study
Benedetta Pessina, Camilla Sertori, Simona Barni, Francesco Catamerò, Giulia Liccioli, Erika Paladini, Lucrezia Sarti, Leonardo Tomei, Julia Upton, Claudia Valleriani, Francesca Mori, Mattia Giovannini · 2026
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Benedetta Pessina and co-authors review peanut immunotherapy in children at one Italian center, in a study published in 2026. The therapy feeds tiny, growing doses of peanut to retrain the immune system. A standard drug product exists abroad but is not available everywhere, so this center used toasted peanuts in a home-grown protocol.
They followed sixty children who started treatment between 2015 and 2024, with a median age of about eight. About a third reached the target dose, tolerating a full serving's worth of peanut protein, after roughly twenty-three months. A third were still in progress, and the rest had stopped, most often by dropping out. Reactions occurred in most children but were mostly mild and settled on their own. The authors call the approach feasible with careful supervision.
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| CREATOR | Benedetta Pessina, Camilla Sertori, Simona Barni, Francesco Catamerò, Giulia Liccioli, Erika Paladini, Lucrezia Sarti, Leonardo Tomei, Julia Upton, Claudia Valleriani, Francesca Mori, Mattia Giovannini |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |