"Has Science Cracked The Peanut Allergy?" - David Crow
The number of people afflicted with food allergies has exploded since the start of the 20th century. After years of research, experimental drugs are in their final stages of clinical testing. One is a capsule that is broken and sprinkled over food, the other a stick-on skin patch placed on a patient's back. Both are underpinned by the same scientific theory: exposing seriously allergic children to tiny amounts of peanut flour retrain their immune systems to cope better with the real thing. Seven year old Hayley Maultasch was diagnosed with suspected peanut allergy six months ago. Today she has come to get a conclusive answer at the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at The Mount Sinai Hospital, where she will eat crackers spread with ever-greater amounts of peanut butter to see if they elicit a reaction. Malika Gupta, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai conducted a test on patient Hayley Maultasch, a seven-year-old diagnosed with a suspected peanut allergy six months ago.
- Malika Gupta, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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