(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Parents with young kids who have peanut allergies may not have to worry much longer – or at least not worry as much -- after a recent New England Journal of Medicine study.
Dr. Christina Ciaccio with the University of Chicago was involved in the research, which indicates there is promise for a skin patch called Viaskin to treat toddlers with peanut allergies.
The study tested the patch on children under the age of 4, who currently lack an FDA approved peanut allergy treatment. Their allergies were monitored for at least a year.
"If we start treating peanut allergy at a very young age, we're more likely down the road to force the immune system not only to tolerate but possibly send peanut allergy into a remission,” Ciaccio tells WBBM Newsradio.
She says this would not only protect allergy sufferers against life-threatening reactions but would make life easier for them, too.
“They can do things more spontaneously the same way that their friends can,” Ciaccio said. “They don’t need to be scared every time someone else provides food for them.”
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