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Parents of children with severe milk and peanut allergies say their lives have been transformed by a 3 year trial, led by researchers at the University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton and Imperial College London.

Doctors say they are already seeing children able to consume and tolerate the very foods which previously would have triggered a severe allergic reaction.

The Natasha Trial is the first major study to be funded by Natasha鈥檚 Foundation, set up by the parents of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse who died aged 15 from a severe food allergic reaction.

Thomas Farmer, 11, was diagnosed with a severe peanut allergy aged one. He can now eat six peanuts a day after joining the trial in Southampton.

His mother Lauren said joining the trial has "taken away so much anxiety around food".