Comment Re:I never understood this. (Score 1) 89
Going by prescribed OIT dosages for peanuts, you can have a allergic reaction down to about a little more than 1/250 of a peanut. That means a finely grounded peanut could contaminate up to 200-250~ portions.
That means in a poorly cleaned environment, guess what is going to actually contaminate everything? Its where the labelled concerning peanut contamination comes from.
Similarly, if you are paying for OIT for peanuts, you are paying for roughly 0,5 1 3 6 12 20 40 80 120 160 200 240 300mg of peanut per day per week , in escalating doses, for longer than 13 weeks. And about 200mg is a peanut.
And you will pay for that, since finding the dosage chart is somewhat of a hassle, but also because reducing the peanut down to 0,5mg to get the starting dose, and confirming the escalation steps is awkward to do, even more so if the patient has a very very mild allergic reaction. Such the peanut allergy really being cross reaction from pollen.
Similarly, if you got pollen allergy, to see what the treatment immune therapy/tablets costs, and see if you can get it covered. If not for the 4 weeks of the year where you don't function, at the least talk to a expert about cross allergies and see if anything else could be fixed by the pollen OIT.