Future of oral immunotherapy for food allergy

Abstract

Oral immunotherapy (IT) is forthcoming treatment for food allergy. There are a method of increment by small and small and rush IT in the antigen administration pattern. These IT are associated in varying degrees with side effects such as urticaria, abdominal pain and anaphylaxis. A sublingual IT and IT using hypoallergenic food antigens are recently studied as an oral IT with a few adverse reactions. The oral IT for food allergy is promising treatment. The efficiency has been already approved in many articles on IT for food allergy. The task to be solved is the establishment of safe IT and the clarification of the mechanisms.