Woman Develops Peanut Allergy After Lung Transplant

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @05:15AM from the no-extra-charge dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A woman in need of a lung transplant got her new lungs from someone with a peanut allergy who died of anaphylactic shock. Seven months after the surgery, the woman was at an organ transplant support group when she ate a peanut butter cookie and had a violent allergic reaction. So how had the woman's new lungs brought along a peanut allergy? A blog post dives into the medical details and explains that immune cells in the donated lungs couldn't have lived in the new body for long enough to cause the reaction... however, if they encountered an allergen (i.e. something peanuty) shortly after being transplanted, they could have trained the woman's native immune cells to respond."

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Idle? by emkyooess · 2010-10-20 05:22 · Score: 5, Insightful

I wouldn't call this an "idle" article. It's more of a real article that some of them lately.
1. Re:Idle? by Monkeedude1212 · 2010-10-20 05:31 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Agreed. At first I Thought "Well the only sources appear to be blogs" so I understood the idea of putting it under idle.
  BUT, it's on the NCBI Medical Publication website, here:
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18926410
  So I don't know why they didn't just link that and put this under... I dunno... Is there a Bio or medicine section? Science if nothing else.
The solution is clear by EmagGeek · 2010-10-20 05:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Sue the donor's estate