This weekend's newsletter carries a report on the Cambridge Peanut Allergy Clinic that I went to visit last month. The clinic was set up by Dr Andy Clark and his colleagues as a result of their successful 2014 trial showing that the immune systems of peanut allergic children …
Cambridge Peanut Allergy Clinic
Immunotherapy – do NOT try this at home….
Immunotherapy, especially when combined with probiotics (see Kate Lawrence's research reports this week), shows great promise as a treatment for life threatening allergies. But while the outcome for those who have been treated has been very positive, it is still fraught with …
Pills and patches for peanut allergy
As I was doing the ironing this morning... I caught, The Food Chain on the World Service – an investigation into licensed medicines to treat peanut allergy. You can download the programme and listen for yourselves but here is a quick overview. Immunotherapy (gradually …