date:May 22, 2014
swells, making it difficult or impossible to breathe.
Of the 170 foods that cause allergic reactions, peanuts can be the most dangerous, said Lila. Our research aim was to develop a clean, food-grade process that would result in a simpler, safer peanut ingredient to use in oral immunotherapy.
Peanut allergies impact roughly 400,000 children in the U.S., where current immunotherapy treatments involve giving minute quantities of peanut proteins to patients over a period of time. This process, ca