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Published on: May 31, 2021
Long-term efficacy and safety of cow's milk anaphylaxis specific immunotherapy: Allergen unresponsiveness via the
Inderpal Randhawa1, Nathan Marsteller2
1Food Allergy Institute, Long Beach, Calif.
Background:
Tolerance Induction Program (TIP) immunotherapy applies machine learning contextualized on immunologic and food protein data sets. TIP has established efficacy toward peanut allergy. This form of treatment demonstrates equal efficacy toward cow's milk anaphylaxis. TIP maintains remission outcomes defined as a minimum of 7 days of allergen unresponsiveness to high-dose protein exposures. Furthermore, remission patients openly consume unrestricted amounts of dairy protein.
Objective:
We sought to assess the rate of decline in specific IgE specific whole and component-resolved diagnostics following 1 year of TIP milk immunotherapy.
Methods:
The study comprised 214 cow milk anaphylactic children who underwent TIP at the Translational Pulmonary & Immunology Research Center/Food Allergy Institute. Postintervention changes in cow milk specific IgE, component-resolved diagnostics, and specific IgG4 were assessed.
Results:
After 1 year of 10-g dairy protein weekly sustained unresponsiveness, eosinophil count decreased from 558.38 to 409.26 cells/μL, the mean cow milk IgE decreased from 16.91 to 9.10 kU/L, the mean boiled cow milk IgE decreased from 12.89 to 6.03 kU/L, the mean Bos D4 decreased from 7.38 to 3.52 kU/L, the mean Bos D5 decreased from 6.79 to 3.16 kU/L, and the mean Bos D8 decreased from 13.55 to 6.62 kU/L. Adverse events were rare.
Conclusions:
TIP cow milk immunotherapy significantly reduced cow milk specific IgE and component-resolved diagnostics while increasing specific IgG4 in cow milk anaphylactic children. TIP demonstrates safety and clinical efficacy in cow milk anaphylaxis treatment.
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