For someone with a serious peanut allergy, a few crumbs can turn an ordinary meal into a medical emergency. Researchers are now exploring a surprising place to change that response: the trillions of microbes living in the gut.
For someone with a serious peanut allergy, a few crumbs can turn an ordinary meal into a medical emergency.
Researchers are now exploring a surprising place to change that response: the trillions of microbes living in the gut.
Six later tolerated more peanut during controlled testing without reacting, and researchers found immune changes that may help explain why.
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For someone with a serious peanut allergy, a few crumbs can turn an ordinary meal into a medical emergency. Researchers are now exploring a surprising place to change that response: the trillions of microbes living in the gut. Six later tolerated more peanut during controlled testing without reacting, and researchers found immune changes that may help explain why.
The experiment is far too small to establish a new treatment.
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