Food Allergy Research
Only 0.6 percent of the people in the United States have a peanut allergy according to the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, and up to 20 percent of these can be outgrown.
New approaches to managing peanut allergies are being developed and promising research is underway to find novel therapies for combating peanut allergy.
Oral immunotherapy has been the most promising new therapy, in which increasing levels of peanut allergen are fed to allergic children in a controlled research setting over a number of weeks. One study showed that children could eat up to 10 peanuts, while in another mini study demonstrated they could eat up to 15
peanuts without a reaction – many more than they would ingest accidentally.
These results remain experimental and this approach should only be conducted in a research setting, but they are especially promising, since they were effective for all of the children in these studies.
The Fine Print on Peanut Allergies
