Oral Immunotherapy

Hazelnut oral immunotherapy was safe and effective, but cross-desensitization for patients who also had walnut and cashew allergy was unlikely, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Aikaterini (Katherine) Anagnostou, MD, MSc, PhD, FACAAI, did not realize she was already on her way to becoming an allergist when working a seemingly ordinary shift in the ED of a rural area in the U.K.

Adverse events with early age oral immunotherapy for peanut allergy did not occur in 54% of pediatric patients in a real-world setting, according to a research letter published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.

SAN DIEGO — Odds for desensitization and remission fell as patients missed consecutive doses of peanut oral immunotherapy, according to a poster presented here.

SAN DIEGO — Household composition and family history influenced concerns and knowledge about pediatric food allergy among expectant mothers, according to a presentation here.

SAN DIEGO — Patients with three different food allergies who used omalizumab experienced better outcomes than patients who used multi-food oral immunotherapy, driven by lower rates of adverse events, according to an abstract presented here.

Healio spoke with an expert about their study of U.S. and Canadian patients who had anaphylaxis to insect stings between 2010 and 2023, which revealed that those taking lipid-lowering medications experienced more severe reactions.

Following receipt of increasing peanut oral immunotherapy, or home-measured peanut butter, desensitization to peanut protein in children initially able to ingest more than half a peanut was achieved, according to study results.

Caregivers of children with food allergy among minoritized racial and ethnic groups were less familiar with oral immunotherapy than caregivers of non-Hispanic white children with food allergy, according to a recent study.

The field of food allergy treatment has been evolving rapidly, with several promising developments in recent years. Typically, much of what makes headlines, though, surrounds who pays for the headlines.