An experimental skin patch is showing promise to treat toddlers who are highly allergic to peanuts — training their bodies to handle an accidental bite.
Peanut allergy is one of the most common and dangerous food allergies. Parents of allergic tots are constantly on guard against exposures that can turn birthday parties and play dates into emergency room visits.
If additional testing pans out,"this would fill a huge unmet need," said Dr. Matthew Greenhawt, an allergist at Children's Hospital Colorado who helped lead the study. France's DBV Technologies is pursuing skin-based immunotherapy as an alternative way to desensitize the body to allergens. After a year of treatment, they were tested again and about two-thirds of the toddlers who used the real patch could safely ingest more peanuts, the equivalent of three to four, researchers concluded.
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