CNN —Babies who have a peanut allergy are now being offered potentially life-changing treatment at hospitals across Australia in a world-first program aimed at building tolerance to them. The ADAPT OIT Program is open to infants under 12 months who have been diagnosed with a peanut allergy and who are under an allergy specialist at one of the ten pediatric hospitals across five states which are participating. “Australia is the allergy capital of the world and we have 5 million people with allergic disease and peanut allergy affects around 3 per cent of 12-month-old children in Australia. Adam Fox is a London-based professor of paediatric allergy and chair of the National Allergy Strategy Group in the UK. He has spent many years seeing patients with peanut allergy and regularly posts on social media about it.

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Persons: Murdoch, MCRI, ”, Kirsten Perrett, ” Perrett, Perrett, “, Hunter Chatwin, Kirsten, Adam Fox, ” Fox, ” CNN’s Jacqueline Howard Organizations: CNN, Australia’s, Allergy, Excellence, Murdoch Children’s Research, Royal Children’s Hospital, National Allergy Strategy, American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP Locations: Australia, MCRI, Melbourne, London, United States, United Kingdom