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Kids with severe peanut allergies were able to eat the food after building up their tolerance with a daily dose of peanut flour, British doctors report today.
By the end of a small, six-month study of four boys, the children were able to eat up to five peanuts a day — not so many that they could safely sit down to a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but enough that they didn’t need to worry about accidentally swallowing peanut ingredients hidden in other foods.
More research is needed on larger numbers of kids to tease out who can tolerate the treatment and who can't. And once it was clear who could tolerate the treatment, studies would still need to test it on kids eating real peanut products, instead of just those who were accidentally exposed to peanuts.
Some 40 children are being treated with the technique at Duke and Arkansas Children's Hospital. Of the 10 kids who have been followed for more than 30 months, half have been able to stop the therapy and are able to eat peanut products, deliberately or as ingredients in other foods (not yet published).
Kids with severe peanut allergies were able to eat the food after building up their tolerance with a daily dose of peanut flour, British doctors report today.
By the end of a small, six-month study of four boys, the children were able to eat up to five peanuts a day — not so many that they could safely sit down to a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but enough that they didn’t need to worry about accidentally swallowing peanut ingredients hidden in other foods.
More research is needed on larger numbers of kids to tease out who can tolerate the treatment and who can't. And once it was clear who could tolerate the treatment, studies would still need to test it on kids eating real peanut products, instead of just those who were accidentally exposed to peanuts.
Some 40 children are being treated with the technique at Duke and Arkansas Children's Hospital. Of the 10 kids who have been followed for more than 30 months, half have been able to stop the therapy and are able to eat peanut products, deliberately or as ingredients in other foods (not yet published).
