Peanut Desensitization Treatment Helping Some Overcome Their Allergies

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — When Aubriana Kane was just 1½-years-old, she reacted to a piece of cake with a little bit of peanut butter icing.
“Where it touched her skin, she broke out in a rash,” says her mother, Emily Kane.
Testing confirmed her peanut allergy.Since then, her family has managed by simply avoiding peanuts. But that isn’t always possible. The tipping point was Halloween.
“If she got something that she knew she could