Analytical Essay: What´s Peanut Allergy?

We are looking at peanut allergy. Peanut allergy is a common allergy that can cause life threatening allergic reactions. One of these severe allergic reactions is called anaphylaxis. In the case of peanut allergy, when the person comes in contacts with peanuts their body becomes sensitized to it and affects the whole body. The first symptoms of going into anaphylactic shock are typical allergy symptoms such as a runny nose and skin rash. Then after about thirty minutes more serious symptoms will occur such as coughing, wheezing and problems with breathing. If untreated this shock can cause death (Henochowicz, n.d.).
In the United States, approximated three million people are affected by peanut or tree nut allergies. Each year in the United
Omalizumab is a drug that is used to discontinue the secretion of IgE antibodies that causes the severe allergic reactions ("Xolair (omalizumab)," 2014). This method of treatment is used to lower the level of sensitivity of people have that have severe peanut allergies (Umetsu & Khoriaty,
Also the scientists performing this treatment do not test the severity of the patient’s peanut allergy after giving them the drug and prior to giving them the peanuts without the drug. Therefore, people that the drug treatment did not work with would have a severe allergic reaction (Umetsu, Rachid, & Schneider, 2015). Another limitation of these methods of treatment is the amount of success. Though their treatments have been successful, their treatment could be more successful because not everyone was able to handle the treatment and the treatment did not make all of the steps they could have to ensure that most if not all of the antibodies that cause the reaction were