The use of peanut toothpaste may help avoid allergic reactions.
In individuals with a food allergy, toothpaste containing
peanut proteins did not result in any significant adverse effects and
demonstrated early warning indicators of averting harmful reactions.For those
who have a peanut allergy, toothpaste enriched with peanut proteins may help
avert severe reactions. Now that the adult safety study for the medication has
been completed, the researchers plan to examine the drug's efficacy in
youngsters with the allergy.William Berger of the University of California, Irvine,
claims that peanuts are among the foods that cause allergies in the majority of
people in the US and the UK.
To bridge that gap,Berger and associates created a toothpaste containing peanut proteins in the
hopes that it would teach a person's immune system to tolerate the meal.
Thirty-two persons with a peanut allergy were recruited by the researchers to test its safety. Of
those, twenty-four were instructed to use the toothpaste containing peanuts,
and the remaining individuals received a placebo (the identical toothpaste but
devoid of peanut proteins). Every participant was given instructions to brush
their teeth for two minutes in the morning using a pea-sized amount of either
the placebo or peanut toothpaste, and to use their regular toothpaste in the
evening.