SAN ANTONIO -- Peanut oral immunotherapy (OIT) at maintenance doses 10 times lower than conventional dosing may be an effective strategy for desensitizing peanut-allergic patients, according to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Black patients with peanut allergies received oral immunotherapy less frequently than white patients. Patients ...

Avoid the allergen. For decades, that was the only advice for people with life threatening food allergies. While that is still true, the food allergy community is cautiously, but excitedly, watching ...

A recent study attempted to determine the prevalence of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) in a group of patients allergic to milk or egg and undergoing oral immunotherapy (OIT) to those foods, as well as ...

A low-dose peanut oral immunotherapy (OIT) protocol using parent-measured dosing can desensitize children aged 1-4 years with peanut allergy. The approach appears to be acceptably safe and may yield ...