Francesca Mori, Mattia Giovannini, Simona Barni, Rodrigo Jiménez-Saiz, Daniel Munblit, Benedetta Biagioni, Giulia Liccioli, Lucrezia Sarti, Lucia Liotti, Silvia Ricci, Elio Novembre, Umit Sahiner, Ermanno Baldo, Davide Caimmi
The prevalence of food allergy has increased in recent years, especially in children. Allergen avoidance, and drugs in case of an allergic reaction, remains the standard of care in food allergy. Nevertheless, increasing attention has been given to the possibility to treat food allergy, through immunotherapy, particularly oral immunotherapy (OIT). Several OIT protocols and clinical trials have been published. Most of them focus on children allergic to milk, egg, or peanut, although recent studies developed protocols for other foods, such as wheat and different nuts...
2021: Frontiers in Immunology