Wearable patch offers hope for toddlers with peanut allergy, say UCC team

Authors concluded that significantly more toddlers with peanut allergy became desensitised after 12 months of treatment with the peanut skin patch than with a placebo patch

A breakthrough trial could offer new hope to toddlers with peanut allergies, according to researchers at University College Cork (UCC).

The international trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved a wearable patch that could prevent severe allergic reactions in toddlers.