Transcript: Analysis: Some children with severe allergic reactions to bug bites may benefit from venom immunotherapy

RENEE MONTAGNE
Morning Edition (NPR)
08-12-2004
Analysis: Some children with severe allergic reactions to bug bites may benefit from venom immunotherapy

Host: RENEE MONTAGNE
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

RENEE MONTAGNE, host:

It is hard to get through the summer as a kid and not get bitten by a bug. Many physicians and parents believe children outgrow any allergic reactions they might have from these insect stings. But another study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine suggests that a small number--suggests that some children never outgrow these allergies, and that venom immunotherapy can protect them long after treatment stops. NPR's Rachel Jones reports.

RACHEL JONES reporting:

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