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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Gregory Health editor

NHS trial uses daily doses of food allergens to tackle severe reactions

A little boy cracks peanuts
The approach means children living with food allergies may no longer have a reaction if they eat something that accidentally contains the allergen. Photograph: michellegibson/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Children have been able to enjoy foods that previously would have triggered potentially life-threatening allergic reactions after they took part in a “life-transforming” NHS clinical trial, doctors have reported.

A pioneering £2.5m study is using daily doses of everyday food products, taken under strict medical supervision, rather than drugs to train the bodies of children as young as two to tolerate an allergen.

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