Medicina (Oct 2019)

Oral Immunotherapy (OIT): A Personalized Medicine

  • Francesca Mori,
  • Simona Barni,
  • Giulia Liccioli,
  • Elio Novembre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina55100684
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 55, no. 10
p. 684

Abstract

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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.

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