IMAGE: A STUDY BY LJI RESEARCHERS IDENTIFIED A T CELL POPULATION THAT RENDERS NORMAL FOOD NON-ALLERGENIC. PHOTO CREDIT: LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
LA JOLLA, CA–An estimated 15 million Americans suffer from food allergies, many of them children. These are non-trivial concerns, as food allergy or intolerance can cause symptoms ranging from a harmless skin rash to a potentially lethal anaphylactic shock. The good news is that many affected children outgrow their allergy, presumably as the immune system learns to tolerate food initially mistaken as “foreign”. Read more
(Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/ljif-nsi012516.php)