The status of Food Oral Immunotherapy: FAST becoming a reality!

A letter in a recent The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice (Wasserman, Richard L. et al. Oral immunotherapy in US allergy practice. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 2023;  Volume 11, Issue 12, 3814 – 381), Drs. Wasserman, Windom and Jones, three of the most notable proponents of food oral immunotherapy, published results of a survey of Allergist members of the Food Allergy Support Team (FAST), a group of us Allergists trying to improve food oral immunotherapy and be a resource for one another.

The survey polled those of us on our List Serve, consisting of 550 board-certified allergists and immunologists, the spring of 2023.  129 Allergy practices responded, and 97.5% had treated at least one patient or more with OIT.  To date, more than 26,000 patients have been treated.

“Specific foods treated include peanut (100%), tree nuts (86%), cow milk (80%), egg (79%), seeds (69%), wheat (56%) and legumes (39%) with fewer than 10% treating fish or shellfish allergy,” according to them.

Only 4.5% used the FDA-approved peanut treatment, known as Palforzia, whereas the remainder of us used over-the-counter peanut products.

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