A seven-year-old child has been
saved from a serious allergy by a special "blood wash" treatment
practised for the first time in the world by Rome's Bambino Gesù
children's hospital.
The treatment 'washed' the child's blood of the antibodies
responsible for his condition after pharmaceutical therapies
proved ineffective.
The boy, Michele, suffered a very serious form of allergy
to foods, including milk, eggs, fish and fruit, which combined
with asthma, caused a series of bad fits.
The treatment is not considered a definite cure, but it
has made it possible to bring the condition under control and
significantly increased the boy's quality of life.
As a result, it a breakthrough that could open up new
options for the treatment of extremely serious allergies.
The paper related to the ground-breaking treatment has
been published by scientific journal Pediatrics.
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