Managing food allergy: GA2LEN guideline 2022
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Journal Article
Abstract
Food allergy affects approximately 2-4% of children and adults. This guideline provides recommendations for managing food allergy from the Global Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA2LEN). A multidisciplinary international Task Force developed the guideline using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) II framework and the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE) approach. We reviewed the latest available evidence as of April 2021 (161 studies) and created recommendations by balancing benefits, harms, feasibility, and patient and clinician experiences. We suggest that people diagnosed with food allergy avoid triggering allergens (low certainty evidence). We suggest that infants with cow's milk allergy who need a breastmilk alternative use either hypoallergenic extensively hydrolyzed cow's milk formula or an amino acid-based formula (moderate certainty). For selected children with peanut allergy, we recommend oral immunotherapy (high certainty), though epicutaneous immunotherapy might be considered depending on individual preferences and availability (moderate certainty). We suggest considering oral immunotherapy for children with persistent severe hen's egg or cow's milk allergy (moderate certainty). There are significant gaps in evidence about safety and effectiveness of the various strategies. Research is needed to determine the best approaches to education, how to predict the risk of severe reactions, whether immunotherapy is cost-effective and whether biological therapies are effective alone or combined with allergen immunotherapy.
Date Issued
2022-09-01
Date Acceptance
2022-08-01
Citation
The World Allergy Organization Journal, 2022, 15 (9)
ISSN
1939-4551
Publisher
BioMed Central
Journal / Book Title
The World Allergy Organization Journal
Volume
15
Issue
9
Copyright Statement
© 2022 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of World Allergy
Organization. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Organization. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36119657
PII: S1939-4551(22)00063-1
Subjects
Adolescent
Adults
Children
Food allergy
Food hypersensitivity
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States
Article Number
ARTN 100687
Date Publish Online
2022-09-07