00:00There's a patch for that. According to a new clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, wearing
00:06a patch for 12 months helped desensitize toddlers with mild allergies to peanuts. So basically, they could eat a few
00:13peanuts without having an allergic reaction. Two-thirds of the 244 children who wore the skin patch became desensitized to
00:20peanuts. Researchers considered the kids desensitized if they could tolerate the equivalent of one to four peanuts.
00:27This may be a big relief for parents who constantly worry about their kids accidentally eating peanuts. The team of
00:33researchers said, quote, families have indicated that treatments protecting their children against reactions from unintentional peanut exposures would improve the
00:42children's socialization and the quality of life of the children and their families, unquote.
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