Children's food allergy treatment breakthrough 'nothing less than a miracle'

DOCTORS today hailed a potentially “life-transforming” breakthrough in allergy treatment after early trial results showed that eating small amounts of trigger foods could build up immunity in children.

- Daniel Keane

Five hospitals have joined a £2.5 million clinical trial set up in memory of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, who died in 2016 after suffering a severe allergic reaction to sesame in a Pret baguette.

Natasha, 15, from Fulham, was travelling with her father and a school friend from London to Nice when she collapsed during a British Airways flight. She had bought the sandwich in a Pret a Manger shop at Heathrow, but a food labelling loophole left her unaware that the baguette contained sesame seeds.