A MAJOR Breakthrough For Peanut Allergies Just Happened!
posted by Jadd -
As a dude who is deathly allergic to peanuts, I'm obviously pretty invested in ways that a peanut (or food allergy in general) can be fought off. What's crazy is that when I was a kid, a peanut allergy was unheard of -- and now MILLIONS of kids suffer from it.
BUT, there's a California company, Aimmune Therapeutics, that just did a trial with kids 4-17 with severe peanut allergies who were given capsules filled with peanut flour in increasing doses. Naturally, some of the kids in the trial had to drop out because of reactions, etc, but there was a pretty sa-weet success rate, too!