Current Options for the Treatment of Food Allergy

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1531-1549

  Lanser, Bruce J ^a,b   Wright, Benjamin L ^c,d   Orgel, Kelly A ^c   Vickery, Brian P ^c   Fleischer, David M ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaphylaxis; Desensitization; Food allergy treatment; Food allergy hypersensitivity; Immunotherapy; Omalizumab; Probiotics; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; PROBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIALLERGIC AGENT; OMALIZUMAB;

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DESENSITIZATION; EGG ALLERGY; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; EPICUTANEOUS IMMUNOTHERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MILK ALLERGY; ORAL IMMUNOTHERAPY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEANUT ALLERGY; REVIEW; SUBLINGUAL IMMUNOTHERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE; ANAPHYLAXIS; CHILD; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; PROCEDURES;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANTI-ALLERGIC AGENTS; CHILD; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; OMALIZUMAB; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 84943587848     PISSN: 00313955     EISSN: 15578240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2015.07.015     Document Type: Review

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