Do you have food allergies? Would you like to participate in clinical trials to help study food allergies which may help uncover treatment options? For example, researchers from Cornell University together with the University of California, Davis are seeking 70 people age 18 and over with severe food allergies to peanuts, tree nuts and shellfish to participate in a study on severe food allergies.

If you go to ClinicalTrials.gov, and put food allergy in the search box, you'd see quite a number of upcoming and ongoing trials on food allergies. Just check what their criteria for eligibility are and if you qualify, the contact numbers of the organizers are also indicated there. Some trials offer compensation, some not. But the knowledge that you would be contributing to the understanding of the mechanisms of allergic diseases is worthless!