Earlier this week, news that six months of exposure therapy to peanuts enabled almost 100 children with an allergy to this food to eat the equivalent of ten peanuts stirred a lot of optimism. It was just one of many studies showing that some patients with severe peanut allergies can actually gain the ability to consume  to small amounts of the food by eating a little bit of this nut each day, gradually increasing the dose over several months.  Read more