End of inhalers? Cure for asthma and food allergies on horizon

A universal cure for asthma and food allergies is on the horizon after scientists found a way to convince the immune system to ignore triggers like pollen or peanuts.
The new approach involves taking a small amount of the problem food or allergen and encasing it in a special shell to form a 'nanoparticle' which the immune system sees as debris.When specialist cleaning cells move in to sweep away the debris, they find the hidden cargo, but send out a signal to say that it is not harmful. 
"The findings represent a novel, safe and effective long-term way to treat and potentially 'cure' patients with life-threatening respiratory and food allergies," said Professor Stephen Miller of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Illinois, US. 
"This may eliminate the need for life-long use of medications to treat lung allergy.
"It's a universal treatment. Depending on what allergy you want to eliminate, you can load up the nanoparticle with ragweed pollen or a peanut protein."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/04/18/end-of-inhalers-cure-for-asthma-and-food-allergies-on-horizon/

I hope this happens soon, my son suffers terribly from hayfever

That is so clever, and could improve so many people's lives. My friends' son can't be in the same room with a peanut and suffers a lot of other allergies.

Very good. I wonder if they'll be able to extend this to treat autoimmune disease as well.

Here's hoping so rags