peanuts

Breakthrough in
peanut allergies

BOSTON Life-threatening reactions
to peanuts may soon be a
thing of the past for millions of
people around the world who are
allergic to the legume, researchers
said yesterday in a finding
that may also help prevent allergic
reactions to other foods.
An experimental treatment
that involved monthly injections
successfully muted the severe reactions
of people who risk death
if they ingest the slightest
amount of peanut protein, a
study this week in the New England
Journal Of Medicine suggests.
“This is a huge advance for patients.
Now they have something
they can do in advance to protect
themselves from accidental exposure,”
Hugh Sampson, one of
the study’s authors, told Reuters.
“It allows them to go around and
not be scared of their food. It really
lifts a cloud.”
Peanut allergy can be so severe
that people have been
known to develop symptoms
after eating just 1/2,000th of one
peanut or kissing someone who
has eaten peanuts. But scientists
said the medicine is still not a
green light to eating peanuts.
Reuters

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this was in yesturday's paper.. kinda interesting
weird thing is that im not allergic to peanuts.. however, im allergic to all the other types of nuts

[Duckydos]

It's always interesting when someone finds out that they are alergic to nuts. My cousin was sitting there one day when her eyes started getting puffy. She started breaking out and all that and started having trouble breathing. A trip to the emergancy room showed that she was actually alergic to nuts.

[DsBlu01CivEX]

hmmm...peanuts are interesting lil things. I just read in part of our Sunday paper, that women who eat nuts or peanutbutter at least 5 times a week, reduce their risk of getting type 2 diabetes by 30%. Even if they are likened to get type 2 diabetes (heredity, little or no exercise, overweight, smoking, etc.) the risk is still reduced. How cool is that? I love peanuts.

OH and firstgear...thats weird that you can eat peanuts but not other nuts. Interesting...

ya.. its really weird.. if i eat nuts by accident, i just get a sick feeling that goes away in like 10 minutes... but peanuts are all good. I have no problems with them

Peanuts suck. My mom always has them laying around in bowls in random places in the house. And then my friends will come over and have a few drinks and find the peanuts and then they leave or drop the peanut shells in stupid places and I find them and get all mad. Slobs.

[ebpda9]

i don't have a problem with peanuts, just i don't like them. i really have an allergy to seafoods and they taste sooooooooooooooo goooooooooood

You know what is weird? How you can just develop an allergy out of nowhere and then it could just go away all of a sudden. That happened with me and bees. I was never allergic and then one day I got stung and I had to go to the hospital.

well i dont know if this is completely true or not, but i heard that you are usually safe the first time you are stung, however due to the fact the because certain stuff.. i dunno exactly what, enters your system, it will trigger an allergic reaction the next time you are stung... anyone else hear this??