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Innovation in Food Challenge Tests for Food Allergy
Amanda L Cox1, Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn2
1Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Kravis Children's Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1198, New York, NY, 10029, USA. Amanda.cox@mssm.edu.
Purpose Of Review:
This review incorporates findings from studies of oral food challenges (OFC) over the last decade and highlights the latest innovations and understanding of the procedure.
Recent Findings:
PRACTALL guidelines are widely used in OFC research, but there is still no international consensus on the OFC protocol in clinical practice. Guidelines for performing OFC in clinical practice have been updated to include oral food challenges for infants. There have been advances in predictive models for outcomes and severity of reaction during OFC that take into account multiple clinical data as well as newer laboratory modalities. Low-dose OFC and eliciting threshold dose determination are being examined for additional diagnostic and therapeutic use in the management of food allergy. Quality-of-life considerations have also been reviewed, as well as post-OFC assessment and care. The OFC remains an important diagnostic tool in the management of food allergy and in clinical research. Advances in the field should improve safety and broaden the clinical applications of this essential procedure.
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