Adults can overcome the allergies of peanuts by eating small amounts with medical help and tolerance, as the NHS study indicates.
Treatment is already used in children to tighten immune systems against severe reactions.
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King's College London says that the first experience of treatment for adults has shown “great success.”
Two -thirds of patients were able to eat the equivalent of five peanuts without reaction at the end of the experiment.
People with allergies should not try to eat nuts at home, as doses began in 0.8 mg of peanut flour before working until the entire nuts.
“Many of the participants who completed the trial told us that the treatment was changing life and that they no longer lived in fear,” said the author of the study,
About one in 200 adults in the UK – 0.5 percent – has a nuts to be allergic to nuts.
Reactions can be severe and even fatal as the immune system exaggerates its reaction by mistake.
Patients work from 0.8mg to full nuts
The new trial included 21 adults between the ages of 18 and 40 with very sensitive peanuts.
They received for the first time 0.8 mg, 1.5 mg and 3 mg of peanut flour mixed with other food under the supervision of paramedics.
If they can bear this, it gradually increased the amount of nuts that they have eaten for weeks and months.
People spent between eight and 23 months in the study, depending on their tolerance and delay.
In the end, most participants – 67 percent – can eat four or five full peanuts without reaction.
The average phase dose increased 100 times over the course of the experiment
Professor Stephen Tail
“We are very happy with the results,” said Professor Stephen Tail, chief investigator from King's College.
“Life -threatening reactions place a great burden on people with peanut allergy.
“The only way to manage it is to avoid and treat strict allergic reactions, including with adrenaline.
“It is known that peanut immunotherapy is effective in children, and this experiment provides early evidence that adults can also be sensitive.
“The average tolerant dose of peanuts increased 100 times over the trial.”
What is the most common food allergy?
Nearly 44 percent of people in Britain suffer from an allergy or an allergic disorder of some kind, says charity in the United Kingdom.
The rates are higher in less than 35s and the lowest in retirees.
The most common nutritional sensitivity, according to NHS, is:
- Cow
- egg
- peanut
- Nuts, such as walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, Baqan, cashews, pistachios and Brazilian nuts
- Soybeans, chickpeas and peas
- Shell
- wheat
You may have allergies to food if it makes you feel dizzy, lighthouse, patient, or itching, or bringing you out in cells, lips, or swollen eyes, or causes diarrhea, vomiting, liquid nose, coughing, morals or yellow.
