A study conducted by researchers has shown that eating small amount of peanuts may help cure the fatal allergic reactions. Researchers claim that this can be termed as “the beginning of the end of peanut allergies”.

Conducted by Cambridge University researchers, the study reveals that consuming small amounts of peanuts on a daily basis for several months helps build tolerance to peanuts, thus curing allergy reactions.

The study was carried out by a team of researchers led by Dr Andrew Clark of Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge, where they gave a group of 23 peanuts allergic children small doses of peanuts every day.

The researchers increased the amount of doses over a period of time, until they could consume peanuts without any severe reactions.

At the end of six weeks, the researchers noted that 20 out of 23 children could consume 5 peanuts safely. After six months, 19 children could eat around 30 peanuts daily, without reporting any allergies.

Based on the findings of the aforementioned study, the researchers are now planning to go a step further. They will now be conducting the biggest trial for peanut allergies, under which, 104 British children, allergic to peanuts, will be given small doses of peanuts every day.

The researchers from Addenbrooke’s believe that the largest ever clinical trial could lead to a treatment for the potentially life threatening peanut allergies.