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Professor Gideon Lack

Peanut immunotherapy – the younger the better

02/08/2022 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

New research from British Columbia confirms yet again that the earlier you start peanut immunotherapy the safer and more effective it is. This makes complete sense in the context of the new thinking about peanut allergy which emerged after Professor Gideon Lack's LEAP trials …

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When to start eating peanuts…..

11/01/2017 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Early in 2015 the peanut allergy world was stunned by the results of the LEAP study conducted by Professor Gideon Lack and his team at King's College in London. Over 600 four to 11 month old babies at high risk of peanut allergy (coming from families with a high incidence of …

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The Telegraph needs to get a grip of the facts

17/03/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

Dr James le Fanu's weekly roundup in today's Telegraph carries the following : Sue Hattersley, head of the department at the Food Standards Agency responsible for imposing the “bureaucratic nightmare” of new regulations complained of by 100 leading chefs and …

Category: Allergies, Food, Food/Health Policy, Nuts, PoliticsTag: 14 major allergens, Addenbrookes hospital, allergen desensitisation, Daily Telegraph, Dr James le Fanu, EFSA, food fraud, Food Standards Agency, LEAP study, Professor Gideon Lack, restauranteurs, Sue Hattersley

Allergy Week – but not as we know it!

26/02/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  8 Comments

The week began with the extremely welcome news that the LEAP study, which had been on-going on at Guys's and St Thomas' Evelina Hospital for the last 5 years, has come up with exactly the results that we had all hoped that it would: that eating peanuts from an early age is likely …

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