Possible Hope for Nut Allergy Sufferers

The Telegraph reports that doctors at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge have developed a therapy that retrains the immune system of food allergy sufferers so that so that they become desensitised to the food. It is emphasised that the treatment should only be carried out in a clinically controlled environment: it should not be attempted outside of a hospital research study. It would not be safe.

See The Telegraph's report of one child patient's successful treatment for his life-threatening peanut allergy.

Is peanut allergy misdiagnosed in a lot of children?

Peanut allergy is misdiagnosed in many children - New Scientist

Extract:

"Many children are erroneously told they have a peanut allergy because the standard skin-prick test is not accurate enough, a new study suggests."