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Twenty per cent of peanut allergy sufferers may outgrow their allergy, according to a study by researchers at the US Johns Hopkins Medical Institution.
Robert Wood, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins and lead investigator of the study recommended that, "Children with a peanut allergy be retested on a regular basis, every one or two years. Adults who have not had any reactions since childhood and who have never been retested should also be reevaluated, ".
In a study of 223 people with well-documented peanut allergy, scientists discovered that 48 did not have an adverse reaction after eating 4 grams of peanut protein. The researchers found that people were more likely to outgrow their peanut problem if they had lower levels of peanut specific IgE, antibodies produced by the immune system that cause allergic reactions.
The results of this study may offer some hope to people suffering from the potentially fatal allergy.
Full findings are published in the February issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.