Oral Immunotherapy (OIT): A Personalized Medicine

Medicina (Kaunas). 2019 Oct 13;55(10):684. doi: 10.3390/medicina55100684.

Abstract

Oral Immunotherapy (OIT), a promising allergen-specific approach in the management of Food Allergies (FA), is based on the administration of increasing doses of the culprit food until reaching a maintenance dose. Each step should be adapted to the patient, and OIT should be considered an individualized treatment. Recent studies focused on the standardization and identification of novel biomarkers in order to correlate endotypes with phenotypes in the field of FA.

Keywords: children; desensitization; egg allergy; food allergy; milk allergy; oral immunotherapy; peanuts allergy; tree nuts allergy; wheat allergy.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Administration, Oral*
  • Food Hypersensitivity / drug therapy*
  • Food Hypersensitivity / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Immunotherapy / methods
  • Immunotherapy / standards*
  • Immunotherapy / statistics & numerical data
  • Precision Medicine / methods*
  • Precision Medicine / statistics & numerical data
  • Quality of Life