Nasal Mucosal Reactivity Assessment Via a Double-blind Placebo-controlled Food Challenge with Cow's Milk Allergens

Overview

Journal Allergy Asthma Clin Immunol

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 2022 Jun 30

PMID 35773706

Authors

Edyta Krzych-Falta

Oksana Wojas

Piotr Samel-Kowalik

Adam J Sybilski

Boleslaw Samolinski

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Abstract

Background: Allergies, including food allergies, are a considerable clinical and public-health problem. The introduced preventive measures and differential diagnostics, including oral food challenges, are the gold standard for determining further treatment planning.

Case Presentation: We present a case of an 18-year-old girl with a cow's milk allergy who underwent an oral food challenge (double blind oral food challenge). Such a challenge may be confounded by inducing a response from other systems and organs, which provides theoretical grounds for the use of other methods of assessing the body's response to food allergens (response demonstrated by the upper respiratory tract). Based on this idea, in order to assess the degree of mucosal response, we used optical rhinometry as an objective method for nasal patency evaluation, as well as identification of tryptase level in nasal lavage fluid and exfoliative cytology of nasal mucosa. The results of these tests confirmed positive reaction of the nasal mucosa in the course of the oral allergen challenge.

Conclusions: The observed increase in the nasal mucosal reactivity that accompanies oral food challenges may suggest a potential for using food allergens in nasal allergen provocation testing in order to diagnose food allergies.

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