Oral Immunotherapy is most often used for Immunity & Infectious Disease.

Oral Immunotherapy

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•Last Updated: October 13, 2024

Oral immunotherapy is a medically-supervised therapy that involves giving someone with a food allergy an increasing amount of a food allergen (e.g., egg or peanut) to increase their allergic reaction threshold. This can protect an individual from the negative effects of accidentally ingesting a specific allergen.

Oral Immunotherapy is most often used for Immunity & Infectious Disease.

Last Updated:October 13, 2024

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Can consuming tiny amounts of seafood reduce seafood allergies?

In this meta-analysis in people with seafood allergies, consuming tiny (but progressively larger) amounts of cooked seafood reduced the occurrences of allergic reactions to seafood. However, important factors reduce our confidence in these findings.

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