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The Listening Room - Can people be freed from peanut allergy?

Oct 28, 2025 - Can people be freed from peanut allergy?

Questions

  1. This approach aimed at treating people having an allergic reaction to peanut.

    • This approach is used to prevent allergic reactions.

  2. bac(b)c

  3. has already been, By the end of

Dictation

  1. The method used, known as oral immunotherapy, has already been successful in children and babies with peanut allergies. But it was not clear if adult allergies, which are more (inbeded), could be treated the same way.

    • The method used, known as oral immunotherapy, has already been successful in children and babies with peanut allergies. But it wasn’t clear if adult allergies, which are more embedded, could be treated the same way.

  2. At the start of the small trial, participants were given tiny doses of peanut powder mixed with food. And over many months, the (quantity) (have) gradually increased to whole nuts.

    • At the start of the small trial, participants were given tiny doses of peanut powder mixed with food. And over many months, the quantities were gradually increased to whole nuts.

  3. All (these) happened under strict medical supervision.

    • All this happened under strict medical supervision.

  4. By the end of the trial, the average dose tolerated had increased by 100-fold with patients(’) able to eat out, socialise and travel without worry.

    • By the end of the trial, the average dose tolerated had increased by one hundred-fold with patients able to eat out, socialise and travel without worry.

  5. This is (our) research, and larger trials are (no) needed to find out more about who could benefit from this approach in the long run.

    • This is early research, and larger trials are now needed to find out more about who could benefit from this approach in the long run.

Vocabulary

  1. immunotherapy - n. 免疫疗法 a treatment that uses the body’s own immune system to help fight cancer

  2. allergy - n. 过敏 a damaging immune response by the body to a substance like food or dust

  3. embed - v. 嵌入、镶；派随军记者 n. 随军记者 firmly attach within something

  4. participant - n. 参与者 a person who takes part in something like a trial or competition

  5. powder - dry fine particles of a solid substance

  6. supervision - n. 监督 the act of watching a person or activity to makes sure everything is done correctly and/or safely

  7. tolerate - v. 耐受、忍受 accept something difficult or unpleasant

  8. one hundred-fold - 一百倍（-fold后缀表示倍数） one hundred times as big or as much

Transcript

The method used, known as oral immunotherapy, has already been successful in children and babies with peanut allergies. But it wasn’t clear if adult allergies, which are more embedded, could be treated the same way.

At the start of the small trial, participants were given tiny doses of peanut powder mixed with food. And over many months, the quantities were gradually increased to whole nuts. All this happened under strict medical supervision.

By the end of the trial, the average dose tolerated had increased by one hundred-fold with patients able to eat out, socialise and travel without worry. This is early research, and larger trials are now needed to find out more about who could benefit from this approach in the long run.