This text should be in three paragraphs. Select the words where the second and third paragraphs should begin. A treatment for peanut allergies using peanuts themselves is within reach after a "dramatically successful
trial. Nine out of ten allergic children were gradually able to eat five peanuts a day in a study that freed
them of the fear of accidentally eating nuts. NHS clinics could start using the method within a year, though
experts told parents not to try the therapy at home, saying that it must be done in specialist centres. About
one percent of children have peanut allergies, which were unknown 20 years ago. Several children die each
year from anaphylactic shock after eating peanuts and thousands more live in fear of setting off an
immune reaction Researchers in Cambridge looked at 99 children aged 7 to 16, half of whom were given
a daily dose of peanut protein equivalent to a seventieth of a peanut. This doubled every two weeks until it
reached 800mg, equivalent to five nuts. Although some children felt sick, 84 percent tolerated this dose.
Half could cope with ten peanuts and when the control group was later given the therapy, 91 percent were
able to eat five peanuts, researchers say in The Lancet.