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News Details (Posted: January 9, 2007):
FOOD - ALLERGY CURE MAYBE THE FOOD
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Elizabeth White's first encounter with peanuts — a nibble of a peanut butter cracker when she was 14 months old — left her gasping for breath. Within minutes, her airways were swelling shut. A mere one-fifth of a peanut was enough to trigger an allergic reaction.
So it was with trepidation that her parents enrolled Elizabeth, at 4 1/2, in a groundbreaking experiment: Could eating tiny amounts of the very foods that endanger them eventually train children's bodies to overcome severe food allergies?
