Several New High-Quality Research On Food Allergies

Several New High-Quality Research On Food Allergies.
There's a deficiency of in harmony information about the prevalence, diagnosis and treatment of food allergies, according to researchers who reviewed details from 72 studies. The articles looked at allergies to cow's milk, hen's eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish, which report for more than 50 percent of all food allergies. The examine authors found that food allergies affect between 1 percent and 10 percent of the US population, but it's not perspicacious whether the prevalence of food allergies is increasing.

While food challenges, skin-prick testing and blood-serum testing for IgE antibodies to precise foods (immunoglobulin E allergy testing) all have a character to play in diagnosing food allergies, no one test has sufficient diminish of use or sensitivity or specificity to be recommended over other tests, Dr Jennifer J Schneider Chafen, of the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System and Stanford University School of Medicine, and colleagues, said in a announcement release. Elimination diets are a bulwark of food allergy therapy, but the researchers identified only one randomized controlled affliction (RCT) - the gold-standard of evidence - of an elimination diet.

So "Many authorities would rate RCTs of elimination diets for serious life-threatening food allergy reactions needless and unethical; however, it should be recognized that such studies are generally lacking for other potential rations allergy conditions," the researchers wrote. In addition, there's inadequate research on immunotherapy, the use of hydrolyzed directions to prevent cow's milk allergy in high-risk infants, or the use of probiotics (beneficial bacteria) in conjunction with breast-feeding or hypoallergenic recipe to prevent food allergy, according to the report published in the May 12 broadcasting of the Journal of the American Medical Association.