Lives at Risk Because of Peanut Allergy

Ashley Gillies, 16, floundered about 30 minutes after eating a baked pasta sprinkled with cornflakes made his father. His throat was suddenly serious swelling accompanied by shortness of breath. While the exposed skin such as burns red.

As quoted by the Daily Mail, stressful events that occurred three years ago.Teenagers from Desborough, Northants were apparently unaware that the cornflake including cereals that contain nuts.

Ashley suffered severe allergy to peanuts since the toddler, who is called anaphylaxis.Not only when eating peanuts, he also will show a bad reaction when he gets a physical touch from someone who just ate peanuts.

Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction, in which the immune system overreacts and inflamed tissue giving rise to a potentially deadly swelling. Peanut allergy is the most common cause of death from other types of food allergies.

Luckily at that time his parents moved quickly brought to the hospital. His condition was slowly turning after doctors gave him intravenous fluids containing allergy medications.

Ashley is one of about two percent of the population of Britons who suffer from food allergies are so serious. Several studies show the number of cases is doubling every 10 years since the 1980s. However, it is not clear triggers of this condition.

Some scientists suspect that the case related to the many parents in Britain are too overprotective with follow government advice to not give children peanuts until age three years. Intention to avoid choking hazard, but this would make the child too late to create tolerance to substances in the beans.

Ashley showed an allergic reaction when I first felt the pea snack at a party. Ashley at that time was three years old soon, inflamed skin showed severe enough.

"A year later, when we were eating peanuts, my husband touched Ashley's face, and spontaneous skin is burned in a matter of seconds," said his mother, Julie.

Ashley's doctor stating that the conditions can not be cured. Ashley should always carry an EpiPen, a device for injecting anti-anaphylaxis, epinephrine, in an emergency.

"Ashley should be careful when to the zoo because a lot of people feeding the birds with nuts. And, entering his teens, he should also ask whether his girlfriend eat beans before kissing her," he said.

Researchers at Glasgow University claimed to have identified a molecule in the human immune system that amplifies the normal allergic reaction becomes life-threatening anaphylaxis. These findings will be a reference to create a treatment by blocking molecules. But, of course it still needs further research.