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Oral Immunotherapy for Food Allergy.
Food allergy is a potentially life-threatening condition with no approved therapies apart from avoidance and injectable epinephrine for treatment of acute allergic reactions. Oral immunotherapy (OIT) is an experimental treatment in which patients consume gradually increasing quantities of the food to which they are allergic in an attempt to induce some level of desensitization. While desensitiz...
متن کاملOral Immunotherapy for Food Allergy
Food allergy is a potentially life-threatening condition with no approved therapies apart from avoidance and injectable epinephrine for treatment of acute allergic reactions. Oral immunotherapy (OIT) is an experimental treatment in which patients consume gradually increasing quantities of the food to which they are allergic in an attempt to induce some level of desensitization. While desensitiz...
متن کاملOral and sublingual immunotherapy for food allergy
OBJECTIVE Food allergies continue to be an increasingly common disorder, however, no treatment strategies are currently approved for the routine management of individuals with food allergies. Encouraging results from early open-label studies have sparked great interest in oral and sublingual immunotherapy, and thus several randomized controlled trials have recently been conducted to establish t...
متن کاملImmunotherapy for food allergy.
Although the current standard care for patients with food allergy is based on avoidance of the trigger foods with hope of possible gain of tolerance, increasing number of studies have shown that oral immunotherapy is a promising approach. Understanding the transcutaneous sensitization and oral immune tolerance to food antigens has shifted focus of treatment and prevention. However, more studies...
متن کاملOral Immunotherapy for Food Allergy: Towards a New Horizon
Food allergy has increased dramatically in prevalence over the past decade in westernized countries, and is now a major public health problem. Unfortunately for patients with food allergy, there is no effective therapy beyond food allergen avoidance, and rapid medical treatment for accidental exposures. Recently, oral immunotherapy (OIT) has been investigated as a treatment for this problem. In...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Seminars in Immunology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1044-5323
DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2017.08.008