Food Sublingual Immunotherapy Using Consistent, Cheaper and Customizable Oral Immunotherapy Solutions

Abstract

Food SLIT (sublingual immunotherapy) is a food desensitization method with a daily maintenance dose of <10 mg for up to 5 years. Many protocols use commercially available skin test extracts. Oral immunotherapy (OIT) treatment solutions have consistent protein concentrations, are comparatively cheaper and customizable and therefore were adapted for use in a published SLIT dosing schedule.

Keywords:

• food allergy
• immunotherapy
• pharmacoeconomics
• food allergy treatments
• sublingual immunotherapy
• desensitization

Disclosure

Dr Joshua Jacobs reports consultancy fees and contracted research from Aimmune, outside the submitted work. The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work.