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Filter by:Food allergy is a common problem, affecting 5-8% of the population. Peanut allergy causes reduced quality of life due to the perceived high risk of severe reactions. Patients rely on accurate labeling of both loose and pre-packed foods, but these are often ambiguous and unhelpful. There is a common conception that labeling is 'over-cautious'. Peanut-allergic consumers face increasingly restricted food choices in complying with this advice due, in part, to the proliferation of advisory labels such as 'may contain peanuts'. This contributes to the reduces quality of life of affected individuals. For industry to provide more accurate and helpful labeling, certain characteristics of the food-allergic population need to be defined. Firstly, the minimum 'eliciting dose' for the population has been estimated by studying large groups of peanut allergic patients who are challenged with peanut ingestion in increasing amounts. From these, an eliciting dose that provokes a reaction in 10% of the food-allergic population has been estimated at between six and 14mg of peanut protein. Translation of population eliciting doses (ED) into acceptable levels of allergen contamination for the population requires consideration of a 'safety factor'- to account for individual variability in dose threshold and severity. Data suggest such variability depends in part on extrinsic factors (exercise and sleep restriction). Each factor may have a different effect in scale and direction. The investigators are proposing a cross-over trial with 85 peanut-allergic adults who will each undergoing a baseline peanut challenge followed by repeat challenges with extrinsic factors applied, in random order (repeat baseline, +exercise and +sleep restriction). These data will further define ED for the UK population and a safety factor derived from shift in threshold, to inform industry and protect the allergic population.
The goal of this study will be to increase the reaction threshold (desensitization) of peanut allergic children using peanut sublingual immunotherapy and to determine if the nonreactive state of the immune system persists after treatment has been discontinued (tolerance).
Peanut allergy is one of the most serious food allergies because of its life long persistence, and the potential for severe allergic reactions. Effective oral immunotherapy would benefit patients by reducing the likelihood that they will have life-threatening accidental allergic reactions. This research study is being done to develop an effective oral immunotherapy treatment for patients with peanut allergy.
This is a pilot feasibility study, using Xolair pretreatment for oral peanut desensitization.
The goal of this study is to produce a new treatment that would benefit adult subjects by lowering the risk of anaphylactic reactions (desensitization), and changing the peanut-specific immune response in subjects who have peanut allergy (tolerance). This project is designed to study the innovative idea that oral immunotherapy (OIT), the ingestion of small increasing amounts of food allergen, will desensitize subjects with peanut hypersensitivity by regulating their mucosal and systemic immune reactivity and cause long-term tolerance.
Open pilot study of peanut oral immunotherapy in 22 children with peanut allergy
This study aims at showing that Epicutaneous Immunotherapy with peanut proteins is safe and efficacious for desensitizing children with peanut allergy.
The purpose of this phase 1b study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of repeated epicutaneous applications of peanut proteins using a patch delivery system (Viaskin device) in peanut allergic subjects.
The purpose of this study is to explore the safety and efficacy of a sublingual (under the tongue) immunotherapy (SLIT) dosing regimen and an oral immunotherapy (OIT) regimen in inducing desensitization and long term tolerance in children with persistent peanut allergy.
The purpose of this study is to find out if there is a way to treat children with peanut allergy to help lower the risk of severe allergic reactions and also cause them to lose their allergy to peanuts and to understand what happens to their immune systems when they have viral infections while on therapy. The approach we will use to treat peanut allergy in this study is a process called desensitization. We think that children with a peanut allergy receiving peanut oral immunotherapy will be able to eat more peanuts without having a reaction by the end of the study than they could eat at the beginning. We also think that we will be able to measure changes in their immune system and their immune system's response to viruses while they are on therapy.