The Medical Freedom Channel

“Children with food allergies are told to avoid problem foods at all costs, but a novel experimental treatment is taking the opposite approach. In a two-year pilot study conducted by researchers at Duke University and the University of Arkansas, eggs were very gradually introduced into the diets of kids who were highly allergic to them in an effort to desensitize the children. A similar study is under way involving children with peanut allergies, which more often trigger potentially life-threatening allergic reactions. … Researchers hope desensitization will help protect food allergy suffers from serious reactions brought on by accidental ingestion of problem foods.” (11/28/06)