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...findings, which are expected by 2014, could mark a significant change in the way doctors handle food allergies. The conventional treatment has long been no treatment at all - essentially, patients are simply advised to avoid problem foods altogether. But a growing number of studies indicate that such an approach may someday be a thing of the past. (See "The Year in Health 2009: From...
...itching, coughing and reddening of the skin. But after just three months, most of the kids were able to eat five peanuts a day with no reaction; at the end of year, the majority of them could safely eat 32 peanuts, which meant they no longer needed to read food labels for possible nut contamination. Clark has just embarked on a three-year, $1.5 million controlled trial to test the same treatment in 104 children with peanut allergies. Similar studies are also under way at Duke University and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, among other places...
...experimental treatment, called oral immunotherapy, aims to desensitize the body to allergens like peanuts by training the immune system to make peace with them. Most food allergies - whether to peanuts, eggs, milk or shellfish - are a result of the immune system misidentifying a food as a dangerous toxin. The body wages war with the invader, and the by-product is an allergic reaction - anything from a minor itch or swelling to a severe asthma attack, which in extremely rare cases and if left untreated can lead to death. Immunotherapy is designed to build up the body's tolerance to such...
...childhood allergies could be prevented or cured - or even weakened - it could help quell many parents' outsize fear of them. "People disproportionately worry about getting extreme reactions or even dying after eating peanuts," says Clark. But while allergy experts agree that risks from food sensitivities are very real, the truth is that only a small fraction of patients develop life-threatening reactions...
...blood tests, only nine exhibited allergic symptoms upon eating peanuts. That may be because blood tests, which detect Immunoglobin E (IgE), an antibody that hunts for foreign particles entering the body, are not always accurate. Some people with moderate amounts of IgE in the blood are classified as "food sensitive"; those with larger amounts of the antibody are most likely food allergic. But the blood test doesn't distinguish between the two conditions...