Scientists at Northwestern University in Chicago have found that a drug used for asthma could stop life-threatening food allergies by inhibiting a reaction in the first place.

Researchers found the drug, zileuton, works to prevent food allergies in mice. Now they want to know if millions of humans can also benefit.

Evanston native Ilana Golant never knew she had a food allergy until three years ago, when she got an anaphylactic reaction from inhaling sunflower butter.

While she developed her allergies later in life, her 9-year-old daughter Emma has a list of food allergies that started at a young age.

"She developed anaphylactic food allergies at 13 months, and I knew absolutely nothing about food allergies," Golant said.

Anaphylactic allergic reactions can be deadly and require immed

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