Postbiotics: A novel strategy in food allergy treatment

Abstract

During the last two decades, the prevalence and severity of clinical appearances of food allergy (FA) have a significant rise. FA derives from a breakdown of immune tolerance. In recent year’s clinical evidence have shown that the probiotics have significant influences on FA by improving the immune tolerance. Besides, postbiotics due to their unique characteristics (safe profile, more shelf life, resistance to mammalian enzymes and stable to digestive system conditions), may have safety superiority against their parent live cells and as a novel strategy can be applied for improvement immune tolerance and treatment of FA without any undesirable side-effects or human opportunistic infections, particularly in infants and pediatrics.

Keywords:

• Food allergy
• postbiotic
• probiotic
• safety
• immune system

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to express their thanks for the Research vice-chancellor of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences for financial support of this study.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.