A nine-year-old girl with a peanut allergy has become the first child to benefit from life-changing treatment.Emily Pratt took part in a clinical trial which gave her treatment to try and reduce the severity if her allergy to peanuts.Evelina London Children's Hospital took part in two large peanut allergy trials - the Palisade and Artemis studies and Emily's mum Sophie, put her daughter forward for them.Sophie says the trial 'changed the family's lives".She said: "Being on the clinical trial has changed our whole family's lives.
The treatment we received has meant that Emily is free from limits and the fear that the tiniest mistake could put her life at risk, and it has removed all the tension and worry that the simple act of eating loomed
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