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Current and Emerging Therapies for IgE-Mediated Food Allergy
- Source :
- Current allergy and asthma reports. 16(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Food allergies are a growing clinical problem leading to increased health care utilization and decreases in patient quality of life. Current treatment recommendations include strict dietary avoidance of the offending food as well as use of self-injectable epinephrine in case of accidental exposure with allergic reaction. Although many individuals will eventually outgrow their food allergies, a substantial number will not. Significant effort has been made to find novel treatments that protect patients from food-triggered reactions as well as to develop immune-modulating therapies that could lead to tolerance. In this review, three therapies that have shown the most promise for the treatment of food allergies are highlighted: oral immunotherapy, sublingual immunotherapy, and epicutaneous immunotherapy.
- Subjects :
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Allergy
Epinephrine
medicine.medical_treatment
Immunology
Administration, Oral
Omalizumab
Immunoglobulin E
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Quality of life (healthcare)
Food allergy
030225 pediatrics
Health care
medicine
Immune Tolerance
Immunology and Allergy
Humans
Sublingual immunotherapy
Sympathomimetics
Sublingual Immunotherapy
biology
business.industry
Immunotherapy
Allergens
medicine.disease
030228 respiratory system
Desensitization, Immunologic
biology.protein
business
Food Hypersensitivity
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15346315
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current allergy and asthma reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....56041d517dc123309b56608cb4577bba