Breakthrough as peanut allergy is cured with peanuts

by LotusFlower | February 20, 2009 at 02:06 am
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A research project in the UK has treated children suffering with peanut allergy with peanuts and seems to have cured them.


Other studies have tried this approach usually injecting small amounts of peanut material in an attempt to desensitise patients but to no avail.


This study actually fed patients increasing amounts of peanut flour and now they appear to cured of the allergy.


This offers great hope for patients around the world but researchers warn that these are early findings and that people should not try this 'at home' as they could put themselves in danger.


Doctors at Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge gave four children tiny doses of peanut flour every day, gradually increasing the dose until now they can eat ten or more nuts a day.


Previously the children would have risked anaphylactic shock or even death if they accidentally ate even a trace amount of peanut.


The team say this is the first time that so-called desensitisation treatment has been successful. Earlier attempts at exposing children with peanut allergies to the nuts caused serious reactions.


It is thought this treatment has worked because it used small doses of flour which was eaten rather than previous attempts which involved injecting peanut extract or oil

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