There is new hope for the 1.8 million Americans that are allergic to peanuts.
Doctors at Duke University Medical Center and Arkansas Children’s Hospital retrained the bodies of a small group of children to tolerate peanuts by feeding them small pieces of peanuts.
Immune tests show no signs of remaining allergy in the children. More research is being done to confirm the pilot study. Lead researcher Dr. Wesley Burks and the rest of the team will continue to monitor the group.
"We're optimistic that they have lost their peanut allergy...we've not seen this before medically. We'll have to see what happens to them."
There is no way to dice the peanuts as small as the researchers did in the treatment so do not try to do the treatment on your own.
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