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A trial has found a potential cure for peanut allergies
"The importance of this finding is that these children were able to eat peanuts like children who don't have peanut allergy and still maintain their tolerant state, protected against reactions to peanuts".
"This is a major step forward in identifying an effective treatment to address the food allergy problem in Western societies."
While the findings are certainly exciting, it has been reported that the sample group of participants was particularly small; just 48 children were involved in the trial, so successful wider tests will need to be conducted before the method can be ascertained as safe to use as a preventative treatment method.
Peanut allergies are thought to be one of the most common causes of food allergy fatalities, and numbers are believed to have grown more swiftly than any other food allergy.