Epinephrine use with oral food challenges versus food oral immunotherapy in clinical practice

Oral food challenges (OFC) are the accepted gold standard for diagnosis of food allergy and have a reported rate of anaphylaxis of 2%. Office based oral immunotherapy (OIT) is becoming more prevalent. The rates of anaphylaxis that require epinephrine with OIT has not been compared to OFC 's. (Source: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology)

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