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Filter by:This is a multi-center, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled food challenge to be conducted in infants and children with confirmed IgE-mediated cow's milk allergy (CMA), followed by a 7-day open feeding of the experimental formula.
Egg, milk and cereal allergies are the most important food allergies in Finnish children, the prevalence in western countries is 1-4 %. In some individuals food-allergy is maintained in to adulthood. Recent studies suggest that specific oral tolerance induction (SOTI) provides a treatment option in children with continuing allergy with high success rates. The study aims at specific oral tolerance induction in adults allergic to cow's milk or hen's egg. Oral immunotherapy involves taking very small amounts of the allergen, and slowly increasing the amount. Consequently, an elimination diet may be wholly or partially cancelled, without the fear of serious allergic reactions. Another aim is to explore changes in antibody-mediated and cell-mediated immune response to individual components of cow's milk and egg allergens during tolerance induction and compare these with the effect of the treatment.
Cow's milk allergy is the most common food allergy in children. The scenery clinical and epidemiological of cow's milk allergy is significantly changed in the last decade. The severity of the clinical manifestations is still rising, and now cow's milk allergy has become the leading cause of hospitalization for food -induced anaphylaxis in our country. In addition, the overall prevalence of cow's milk allergy is increasing for a gradual reduction in the ability to acquire immunological tolerance to cow's milk protein in the first years of life. These mutations dictate the need to identify strategies to stimulate the acquisition of immunological tolerance in children affected by cow's milk allergy . The mechanisms of acquired immunological tolerance are not yet fully defined . The current view suggests the existence of a dynamic mechanism , consisting of various cellular compartments , which is set in a crucial environmental factors arising mainly from the diet and its effects on the intestinal microbiota. These acquisitions have contributed to the definition of a new concept in the field of human nutrition: immunonutrition. The immunonutrition is the ability, through the intake of specific nutrients on the immune system to interfere directly or indirectly through modulation of the composition and function of the intestinal microbiota. The proponent group has recently shown that it is possible to stimulate a more rapid acquisition of immunological tolerance in children affected by CMA through the administration of extensively hydrolysed casein containing the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) (Berni Canani et al. J Pediatr 2013) . Several lines of evidence suggest that this effect is induced by a combination of direct immunomodulatory action exerted by some small peptides derived from the beta - casein and the action of lactobacillus GG. It 's well known that the Lactobacillus GG is able to adjust the composition and functions of the microbiota in the child with CMA and directly adjust some immunological mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of this condition. At the same time other groups have demonstrated the possibility that a high percentage of patients with IgE-mediated CMA is able to tolerate foods containing hydrolyzed cow's milk proteins with different processes. It has also been speculated that these strategies can facilitate the acquisition of immune tolerance in patients with cow's milk allergy. One of these foods is Parmigiano -Reggiano cheese, which is characterized by an ' extensive hydrolysis of the proteins in cow's milk , which degrade the caseins present and generate large amounts of peptides and free amino acids and by the presence of appreciable quantities of Lactobacillus GG in the samples to maturing higher . In a recent study it was shown that 58% of patients suffering from IgE-mediated CMA is able to tolerate a daily intake of normal amounts of this food , especially in the absence of a sensibilization to IgE specific to the beta lactoglobulin. These new findings allow us to hypothesize the use of Parmigiano REggiano cheese as a possible strategy immunonutrition can stimulate the acquisition of immune tolerance in patients with CMA .