
Caitlin Finley
Family physician at the Northeast Community Health Centre in Edmonton and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta, contributing to PEER and the Best Science Medicine Podcast.
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Sep 23, 2026
BS Medicine Episode 627: A Tough Nut to Crack: Does oral immunotherapy improve outcomes in peanut allergy?
20:57
21:25
21:33

Caitlin FinleyGUEST
But one other thing that I thought was interesting from these trials was when we looked at those two large RCTs that Danielle was speaking about and the proportion of patients who needed rescue epi during the food challenge, I just thought it was interesting that only, you know, somewhere in the realm of 50 to 60 or 65% on placebo actually needed rescue epinephrine during the food challenge.

Caitlin FinleyGUEST
Especially because we were talking about in the one RCT, they're getting that 5,000 milligram dose.

Caitlin FinleyGUEST
So it's just interesting to think that, you know, you may have a child who has a severe peanut allergy and then even without this oral immunotherapy, some of them it looks like will at least have a lower severity of that allergic reaction.
BS Medicine Episode 626: Itchy Beginnings: Can we calm infant eczema?
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15:04James McCormackHOST
You know, if you look at the absolute difference, they're different because one is more preventative, the other one is sort of treating, I guess.
Episode 627: A Tough Nut to Crack: Does oral immunotherapy improve outcomes in peanut allergy?
20:57
21:25
21:33

Caitlin FinleyGUEST
But one other thing that I thought was interesting from these trials was when we looked at those two large RCTs that Danielle was speaking about and the proportion of patients who needed rescue epi during the food challenge, I just thought it was interesting that only, you know, somewhere in the realm of 50 to 60 or 65% on placebo actually needed rescue epinephrine during the food challenge.

Caitlin FinleyGUEST
Especially because we were talking about in the one RCT, they're getting that 5,000 milligram dose.

Caitlin FinleyGUEST
So it's just interesting to think that, you know, you may have a child who has a severe peanut allergy and then even without this oral immunotherapy, some of them it looks like will at least have a lower severity of that allergic reaction.
Episode 626: Itchy Beginnings: Can we calm infant eczema?
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Caitlin FinleyGUEST
So the next thing we looked at were topical calcineurin inhibitors, and we found an RCT of 186 infants with mild to moderate eczema.

Caitlin FinleyGUEST
Um, they were aged three months to 23 months, and this was comparing pimecrolimus 1% twice daily compared to vehicle.

Caitlin FinleyGUEST
Um, and they found that the, the percent of infants who had completely controlled or well-controlled eczema at that six-week timeframe was 72% in the pimecrolimus, uh, group, compared to 27% in the group that got vehicle.