Oral immunotherapy is effective for protein-based food allergies but not for rare sugar-mediated allergies like alpha-gal syndrome.

“if you're allergic to a protein which is what we're talking about today you can do this if you're uh there are very rare allergies where you're allergic to a sugar it's called alphal and we don't think you can do this type of regiment with alphal allergies because that's a sugar”