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ReviewAllergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology2025

Food oral immunotherapy.

Mary McHenry, Philippe Bégin, Edmond S Chan, Meriem Latrous, Harold Kim

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Review in Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome reactivated by the initiation of oral immunotherapy (OIT).Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026
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  2. Implementing very-low-dose allergen exposure after suspected IgE-mediated reactions in infancy prior to allergist consultation.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mary McHenryPediatric Allergy & Clinical Immunology, Dalhousie University/IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada. mary.mchenry@iwk.nshealth.ca.
Philippe BéginDivision of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Edmond S ChanDivision of Allergy, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Meriem LatrousDivision of Infectious Diseases, Immunology, and Allergy, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Harold KimDivision of Clinical Immunology & Allergy, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food oral immunotherapy (OIT) is an option for the treatment of immunoglobin E (IgE)-mediated food allergy that involves administering gradually increasing doses of an allergenic food over time (under medical supervision) with the goal of desensitizing an individual to the food allergen. Current Canadian clinical practice guidelines for OIT recommend this form of therapy as an option in patients with food allergy. The intervention should be prioritized in the infant and toddler population, in which it is particularly well tolerated and can lead to sustained unresponsiveness (also sometimes referred to as remission). In this article, we provide an overview of OIT and discuss the role non-allergist clinicians can play in caring for patients undergoing OIT.

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PMID39940042
PMCPMC11823072

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