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Article: Peanut Allergies Need Not Be Fatal -- Monthly shots avert complications arising from accidental exposure
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- March 11, 2003
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For the first time, an experimental drug has been shown to protect
people from potentially deadly allergic reactions from eating peanuts
by accident.
About 1.5 million Americans are allergic to peanuts, the leading
cause of allergy deaths. Some youngsters must eat at a peanut-free
cafeteria table or even in an isolated room. Some airlines have
stopped serving peanuts to safeguard people allergic to even a whiff
of the nut.
The monthly shots are not a cure. But doctors believe the drug
should let these people avoid severe complications if they
unknowingly eat one or two peanuts, the typical accidental exposure.
"Basically, we would not be seeing people in the emergency room or
the morgue from ...