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Food Allergy

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Abstract

Purpose of Review

The goal of this review is to present an updated summary of the natural history of major childhood and adult food allergies and report recent advances in potential treatments for food allergy.

Recent Findings

The most common childhood food allergies are typically outgrown by adolescence or adulthood. However, peanut/tree nut allergies appear to more commonly persist into adulthood. Adults can develop new IgE-mediated food allergies; the most common is oral allergy syndrome. There are multiple different approaches being tried as possible treatments for food allergy.

Summary

The prevalence of food allergy appears to be increasing but the varied approaches to treatment are being actively pursued such that an approved modality may not be too far in the future.

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    Onyinye I. Iweala, Shailesh K. Choudhary & Scott P. Commins

  2. Thurston Research Center, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, University of North Carolina, 3300 Thurston Building, CB 7280, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7280, USA

    Onyinye I. Iweala & Scott P. Commins

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Scott Commins reports personal fees as a member of the speaker’s bureau from Genentech and from Boehringer Ingelheim, and grants from NIH, outside the submitted work. Onyinye Iweala and Shailesh Coudhary declare no conflict of interest.

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Iweala, O.I., Choudhary, S.K. & Commins, S.P. Food Allergy. Curr Gastroenterol Rep 20, 17 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11894-018-0624-y

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