diff --git a/types/sanitize-html/index.d.ts b/types/sanitize-html/index.d.ts
index 2e7527e3fc..88959fa0c6 100644
--- a/types/sanitize-html/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/sanitize-html/index.d.ts
@@ -4,8 +4,11 @@
 //                 Afshin Darian <https://github.com/afshin>
 //                 BehindTheMath <https://github.com/BehindTheMath>
 //                 Rinze de Laat <https://github.com/biermeester>
+//                 Will Gibson <https://github.com/WillGibson>
 // Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
 
+import {Options} from "htmlparser2";
+
 export = sanitize;
 
 declare function sanitize(dirty: string, options?: sanitize.IOptions): string;
@@ -51,6 +54,7 @@ declare namespace sanitize {
     nonTextTags?: string[];
     selfClosing?: string[];
     transformTags?: { [tagName: string]: string | Transformer };
+    parser: Options;
   }
 
 
diff --git a/types/sanitize-html/sanitize-html-tests.ts b/types/sanitize-html/sanitize-html-tests.ts
index b02a5a6653..51d03bf3fe 100644
--- a/types/sanitize-html/sanitize-html-tests.ts
+++ b/types/sanitize-html/sanitize-html-tests.ts
@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ let options: sanitize.IOptions = {
   allowedSchemesByTag: {
     'a': ['http', 'https']
   },
-  allowProtocolRelative: false
+  allowProtocolRelative: false,
+  parser: {
+    decodeEntities: true
+  }
 };
 
 let unsafe = '<div><script>alert("hello");</script></div>';