Cure for Common Food Allergies May be Imminent
by Rudolph Yap in Diseases on Nov 01, 2011
It has been a global query; will allergies caused by peanuts become just a part of the history?
Scientists and experts have already discovered a method to stop the life-threatening allergic reactions caused by foods like peanuts. That was done by playing some kind of a trap in the immune system.
The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s assistant professor of medicine, Dr. Paul J. Bryce explained in his written statement that he and his colleagues think that they have already discovered a method in order to securely and quickly turn off or stop the allergic response, especially to allergies caused by foods such as peanuts.
The research was further explained in the Journal of Immunology, in which a study was conducted through experiments on specially bred mice to be in a situation that copies food allergies that are really serious. The scientists connected proteins from peanuts to the blood cells (leukocytes) and introduced them again into the bodies of the mice. They observed the moment the mice ate the peanut extract and saw no allergic reaction to the mice.
Moreover, Dr. Bryce further noted that the mice’s immune system saw the proteins from peanuts as completely ordinary, since it was already showed in the white blood cells. Additionally, without the help of the treatment, those experimented animals would have gone through an anaphylactic shock.
Anaphylactic shock or also known as anaphylaxis is characterized as an allergic reaction in the whole body marked by a list of indications such as cough, abdominal pain, nausea, difficulty in breathing and swallowing, vomiting, anxiety, and nasal congestion.
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