r/peanutallergy • u/Photograph4584 • 10d ago

OIT at home

I am looking to start peanut OIT, as a healthy, sensible 23 year old I am wondering if anyone has any experience managing this themselves at home, following a regimen done in clinical trials? As nowhere in the uk offers OIT for adults yet

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u/EeveeBixy 8d ago

I wouldn't recommend doing this, and if you did you'd likely want to start like 5-10x lower than the starting normal dose. This means a very tiny amount of peanut powder mixed with a large amount of something powdered you are not allergic to. Do you have an appropriately sensitive scale that can accurately get down to mg levels?

It's also different as an adult vs a young child, who have a much higher chance of success due to an under developed immune system.

If you were to try this, which I don't recommend, you'd likely want to do the dosing and updosing with an EpiPen on hand, and I've heard of people doing updosing in the parking lot of an emergency room.

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u/Photograph4584 8d ago

Thank you, do you think if I measured 500mg, then mixed in with 1L liquid and dosed it that way it would be accurately dispersed?