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Wow, very cool! We're doing SLIT for my toddler's food allergies right now, and I agree a lot more people should be doing it. It's a huge pain dealing with the
by modeless 4y ago
Wow, very cool! We're doing SLIT for my toddler's food allergies right now, and I agree a lot more people should be doing it. It's a huge pain dealing with the doctor for updosing and getting bottles, super inefficient and frustrating like everything else in medicine these days, so if you can fix that you're a hero to me.
I've concluded from recent research that SLIT is clearly far more effective and safer when started super early, ideally before age 3 and even before 1 if possible. And with so many kids having life-threatening food allergies these days, that seems like a big opportunity both from a business perspective and a helping people perspective. What are your barriers to offering treatment for food allergies, and to very young children?
- ahstilde 4y agoWe don't treat food allergies because there's no consensus on how to effectively treat food allergies through remote medicine. I defer to my cofounder, Dr. Manan Shah, on our medical practices. My understanding is we follow the clinical guidelines to follow the standard of care established by state medical boards and the professional academies. Also, medicine is slow to adapt to new standards, usually. The risk of a hastily adopted new standard can be life or death, literally. The industry, and us too, veer toward caution.