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'Exciting' advance reported in peanut allergy therapy |
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Written by Elizabeth Landau - CNN
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
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Article Source: CNN
San Diego, California (CNN) -- Peanuts are like poison for people who have severe food allergies to them. For some, ingesting even a tiny piece of peanut can trigger a potentially fatal reaction.
But new research is showing that immunotherapy, a method of giving a small dose of peanut to a patient in a controlled setting and then increasing the amount over a few months, may help temper these reactions. It's the same principle as allergy shots, only done with food.
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