%0 Journal Article
%T Oral immunotherapy in children with IgE-mediated hen's egg allergy: Follow-ups at 2.5 and 7 years
%A Elena Galli
%A Paolo Gianni Giampietro
%A Paolo Meglio
%A Rossella Carello
%J Archive of "Allergy & Rhinology".
%D 2017
%R 10.2500/ar.2017.8.0211
%X The present report was a follow-up investigation at 2.5- and 7-year intervals of a previous study of 20 children with moderate-to-severe immunoglobulin E (IgE) mediated hen's egg (HE) allergy who received oral immunotherapy (OIT) with raw HE. The study design of the previous study divided the 20 subjects into two groups of 10 each: (1) group 1, the OIT group (OIT-G), and, (2) group 2, an age-matched control group (C-G). In that study, 8 of 10 of the children in the OIT-G were successfully desensitized, one child was partially desensitized, and desensitization failed in one child. The aims of the present study were to evaluate the long-term effectiveness and safety profile of OIT with raw HE, and to assess the course and prognostic value of skin-prick tests (SPT) and serum-specific HE-IgEs in this study population
%K Food Allergy
%K hen's egg food allergy
%K oral immunotherapy
%K oral tolerance
%K specific oral tolerance induction
%K sustained unresponsiveness
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5662541/