The 28-year-old Chris Brook-Smith lived for fear of dying from eating peanuts.

Ten years ago, he had the worst allergy after ordering Curry in a local Indian Techway. Its trauma turns into his memory.

“I knew I was in trouble after a bite,” he says. “There were spots on my lips within seconds. Within a few minutes I was vomiting. I could feel that my throat is closing, my armpits are being made of urticarcies, then on my whole body … My face is humming with swelling.”

His voice is full of emotion.

“I thought I was going to die.”

Later that day the photos taken in the hospital show that she had a reaction to her body.

“I felt like a turkey because my skin was very funny,” says Chris.

But the most painful thing was urticaria – red, bumps raised on the skin – which felt “boiling water was inserted on me”.

Trying to avoid peanuts, one of the most common food allergies, has been a way of life for a serious allergy for Chris and millions of other adults. Food out, going to social programs and traveling abroad is all full of concern.

One of the 200 adults and one in 50 children is walnut allergies, called charities. Some children get out of their allergies, but many do not do – and they continue in adulthood, often worsen.

An allergic reaction occurs when the body reacts to protein in peanuts, thinking that it is a danger, which triggers a sudden release of chemicals. Symptoms can be mild to very serious.

Chris’s allergy first surfaced as a child, when he developed a rash because his mother made a peanut butter sandwich.

Each response has been worse than before, which means that he has become accustomed to living every day “Hopefully on high alert is nothing bad”.

Activities like going out with friends or eating in restaurants, which should be pleasant, were stressful, potentially turned into life-threatening experiences.

Despite the love of the journey, Chris avoided moving to countries where peanuts are usually used like Southeast Asia, after three allergic reactions to Italy.

As Chris grew up, his family was constantly worried about him. But then his mother heard about a clinical test at Gis and St. Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London, which would change his son’s life.

This will test whether adults like Chris with severe peanut allergies can be a lot by training their body, which can kill it, which can kill it, calm the immune system when it usually reacts more when it usually reacts more.

Despite being “really nervous”, Chris agreed to sign up.

Under the attentive eye of doctors, Chris began by eating a fraction of a mg of peanut powder mixed with curd. In several months, the amount of peanuts gradually increased, gradually to eat fractions of Chris nuts and finally, the creation of the whole nuts.

By the end of nine months of study, 14 out of 21 patients can eat five peanuts without allergic reactions – including Chris.

Professor Stephen Til, who led the research, says the treatment “has the ability to have a real impact on the life of patients”.

“The most severe reactions are caused by mistakes, usually by someone else, and misunderstanding. So it provides them some protection against him.

“They have controlled, if you like, now they have peanut allergies.”

Method – Which is called oral immunotherapy – already proves to work for allergies from pollen, wasp and bee stings. It is used only on food allergies in the last 20 years, and mostly in children whose immune system is still developing. Adult is considered difficult to move allergies.

Professor Til says, “Peanut allergies are very common in children and almost never goes away.” “They are going to become young adults, so we also need treatment for adults.”

This test published in the allergic journal, shows adults with severe allergies that the amount of peanuts may increase which they can tolerate 100 times.

Chris had no idea how he would react to the minor mark of peanuts. Increasing that dose – voluntarily – was something that he could not imagine.

“The first time I went there and I swallow this stuff, my heart is going one million miles per hour,” he says. “The big jump in fear was going from peanut dust to half a walnut.”

But he was assured of the presence of a team of doctors and nurses, with medicines like adrenaline in terms of a serious, life-dream response.

“You got 100 eyes – nothing is going to happen.”

However, experts were not emphasized that no one should try this at home because due to the risk of having a serious allergic reaction.

Every person who tried to treat was disencished, and more people would have to work big tests as to why it is so.

“For some people, there were reactions and we had to slow down a step or go back,” Professor Til explains. “But the message is that you can give adults in peanuts -and in future adults should pay more attention.”

Researchers said that being able to eat peanuts safely, they had great impact on the lives of those who participated. This has given them freedom to travel, reduced their anxiety while eating outside and removed their fear of food.

How to develop it in practical treatment on NHS is a challenge. First of all, large tests are required to prove that it can work for more people.

And researchers are viewing if the solution below the tongue puts drops of peanuts, the same end may be a safe way to get the result.

Chris now eats four peanuts with his breakfast granola every morning, which is recommended by his doctors – to keep his allergies in the Gulf.

He is grateful to get an opportunity to participate in the test and expects many other people with severe peanut allergies may also benefit from treatment.

While he admits that he still hates peanut taste, he says that he can now eat something that once sent to his body to “nuclear recession”, he has changed his life.

“This is a wonderful feeling,” says Chris. “I am no longer afraid of dying.”