Doctors launch major trials to treat childhood peanut allergy
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/21/peanut-allergy-clinical-trial
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Doctors are launching a major clinical trial in the search for a long-term treatment for peanut allergy after children suffering from the condition were treated successfully for the first time.
Researchers at Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge will begin the £1m government-funded immunotherapy trial next month after a pilot study showed children who had a severe reaction to peanuts could be desensitised.
The therapy is the most promising development yet in the search for a long-term treatment for the allergy, which affects 4% of British schoolchildren.
Children who suffer a reaction to peanuts can experience a constriction of the airways, breathing trouble, asthma, itching and swelling. Unlike some other childhood allergies, peanut sensitivity rarely recedes with time. Around one in 10 reactions is serious.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/21/peanut-allergy-clinical-trial
Researchers at Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge will begin the £1m government-funded immunotherapy trial next month after a pilot study showed children who had a severe reaction to peanuts could be desensitised.
The therapy is the most promising development yet in the search for a long-term treatment for the allergy, which affects 4% of British schoolchildren.
Children who suffer a reaction to peanuts can experience a constriction of the airways, breathing trouble, asthma, itching and swelling. Unlike some other childhood allergies, peanut sensitivity rarely recedes with time. Around one in 10 reactions is serious.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/21/peanut-allergy-clinical-trial
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