Study to Assess Tolerance of Traces in Peanut/Tree Nut Allergic Children.

Food Allergy Clinical Trial

Official title:

Assessing Tolerance to "May Contain Traces" Processed Foods in Tree Nuts or Peanut Allergic Children.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Terminated

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03680066
• Other study ID #: CCER 2017-01413
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: November 28, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: November 2023
• Source: University Hospital, Geneva
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This protocol will help better define whether patients with peanut and/or tree nut food allergy can tolerate traces in products with precautionary allergen labelling.

Description:

Visit 1 (V1): During this visit at the Pediatric Research Platform at the Children's Hospital, subjects will undergo an open food challenge to 3 processed foods labeled with "may contain traces" by following safety and accuracy guidelines for food challenges (7). The following foods (similar for all patients) will be given in one dose in the size of a regular serving:

• cookies, max 30 g;

• chocolate, max 30 g;

• breakfast cereals, max 50 g.

Each meal will be administered with a 1 hour observation period in between and at the end.

If the patient does not react to any of the foods or has only oral itching (mild symptoms), he/she will be instructed to stop the ban on "may contain" foods and eat them regularly. If the patient has more than mild symptoms, the study will be stopped and the patient will be banned from eating foods with traces. The study subjects with a negative challenge and instructed to eat foods with the "may contain" label will be provided emergency medications and instruction on when and how to use them according to current guidelines (8).

An age appropriate quality of life questionnaire will be filled out by the parents/patient during the visit.

For the following 3 months after "may contain food" challenges, the patients will be invited to eat on a regular basis any foods labeled as "may contain" tree nuts and/or peanuts and record the consumption on a diary. Such foods will only be eaten in presence of a family member instructed for the measures to be taken in case of a reaction. They will record any history of reaction and contact the study team. The brand name of the food, and if available the batch will be recorded. The participants will store the study food and its packaging safely in a box and bring it along at V2 for allergen content analysis.

If a reaction occurs, the food will be analyzed for allergen content by immunoaffinity capillary elecrophoresis-matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry, as well as a simplified version of this technique, the immunomagnetic separation -matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry.

Visit 2 (V2): During this visit, the parents/patients will report on the brand, the frequency and the amount of "may contain" foods eaten since V1.

The quality of life questionnaire will be filled out again by the parents/patient.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Terminated
• Enrollment: 15
• Est. completion date: November 28, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: November 28, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 2 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Children aged 2-18 years at time of inclusion

• Tree nut or peanut allergy documented by:

• Positive skin prick tests (SPTs) to peanut and/or tree nuts

• Positive specific IgE (sIgE) to peanut and/or tree nuts ( =0.35 kU/L)

• A recent (< 1 year) positive food challenge, reacting to the dose of 30 mg of proteins or below.

• Parent/Legal guardian has been informed about the study and has signed Informed Consent Form

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of a moderate or severe reaction during a food challenge with a dose of 30 mg of proteins or less.

• Expected non-adherence to the study protocol.

• Severe or uncontrolled asthma.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Food Allergy
• Food Hypersensitivity
• Hypersensitivity
• Nut Hypersensitivity
• Peanut Allergy
• Peanut Hypersensitivity
• Tree Nut Allergy

Intervention

Other:
• Oral food challenge to foods with traces
Subjects will undergo an open food challenge to 3 processed foods labeled with "may contain traces". The following foods (similar for all patients) will be given in one dose in the size of a regular serving: cookies, max 30 g; chocolate, max 30 g; breakfast cereals, max 50 g. Each meal will be administered with a 1 hour observation period in between and at the end.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Switzerland	Pediatric Allergy Unit - University Hospitals of Geneva	Geneva

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Geneva

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Switzerland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Result of the food challenges with foods labelled with "may contain traces" (tolerated or reacted).	Result of the food challenges with foods labelled with "may contain traces" (tolerated or reacted).	At study entry
Secondary	Tolerance to foods labelled with "may contain traces" eaten normally during a 3 months follow-up.	Tolerance to foods labelled with "may contain traces" eaten normally during a 3 months follow-up (reactions / no reactions to these foods).	During 3 months follow-up
Secondary	Frequency of reactions to foods labelled with "may contain traces" eaten normally during a 3 months follow-up.	Frequency of reactions to foods labelled with "may contain traces" eaten normally during a 3 months follow-up (number of reactions).	During 3 months follow-up
Secondary	Severity of reactions to foods labelled with "may contain traces" eaten normally during a 3 months follow-up.	Severity of reactions to foods labelled with "may contain traces" eaten normally during a 3 months follow-up (severity of reactions by reaction type).	During 3 months follow-up
Secondary	Changes of quality of life after 3 months without restriction of foods labelled with "may contain traces", compared to baseline when restricting.	Changes of quality of life measured with the age-appropriate "Food allergy quality of life questionnaire (0-12 years [parents], 7-12 years [patients], or 13-17 years [patients]. Results (on a continuous numerical ranking from 1 to 6 for each item) after 3 months without restriction of foods labelled with "may contain traces", are compared to baseline when restricting.	At entry and after 3 months