Simone Foti Randazzese, Ilenia Panasiti, Lucia Caminiti, Francesco Catamerò, Massimo Landi, Maria De Filippo, Martina Votto, Roberta Olcese, Filippo Favuzza, Mattia Giovannini, Salvatore Barberi
Peanut allergy affects about 1%-3% of the pediatric population in the world, with an important increase in the last decades. Nowadays, international guidelines recommend the early introduction of peanuts in the infant diet, with poor information about the quantity and the frequency of the intake. Allergen immunotherapy may represent the only therapeutic strategy able to modify the natural history of peanut allergy. In particular, oral immunotherapy showed the most promising results in terms of efficacy, but with significant rates of adverse reactions, mostly gastrointestinal...
April 2024: Pediatric Allergy and Immunology