Wheat oral immunotherapy trials for people with wheat allergy
What it found
Most wheat allergy treatment plans helped people become less sensitive to wheat in clinical trials.
Severe allergic reactions could happen, especially when combined with exercise.
What they found
Studies in people
Becoming less sensitive
Most treatment plans helped people tolerate wheat better. Higher doses kept up over longer periods made success more likely.
Long-lasting tolerance
Very few studies checked whether people stayed tolerant after stopping the treatment.
Allergic reactions during treatment
The treatment can trigger allergic reactions, including severe ones. More serious reactions often happened alongside other triggers like exercise.
Lowering reaction risk
Smaller daily doses were linked to milder reactions. Changing the food form or adding other medicines might also lower the chance of a reaction.
What the authors conclude
- They note that trials are still ongoing to find the best doses and schedules.
- Their goal is to improve how well the treatment works while reducing side effects.
How it was done
Food allergies are becoming more common worldwide. Scientists wanted to look at recent progress in treating wheat allergy by giving small amounts of wheat by mouth.
They looked at human trials where people with wheat allergy took small, increasing amounts of wheat by mouth. This included one large trial across multiple centres and several smaller studies. The trials generally had small numbers of patients.
What it can’t tell you
- We summarised it from the abstract only.
- These trials had small numbers of patients, so results may not apply to everyone.
- Different studies measured success in different ways, making them hard to compare directly.
Who paid
- Authors work at
- University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland
The paper
- Title
- Wheat oral immunotherapy
- Type
- ReviewThe authors read earlier studies and describe what they found. It isn’t a new study.
- Evidence
- Studies in people
- Summarised from
- Abstract only
- Cite
- Leeds S, Liu EG, Nowak-Wegrzyn A (2021). Wheat oral immunotherapy. Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology. doi:10.1097/ACI.0000000000000743PubMed 33840798DOI
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