On Friday, the FDA approved Palforzia, the first drug to treat peanut allergy. Although approved, it is not yet available. We plan to begin using Palforzia as soon as it becomes widely available. If you or your child has peanut allergy, please call us to schedule an evaluation and determine eligibility
Category: oral immunotherapy
Teal Pumpkin Project
Halloween is almost here! For those without food allergy, it is a time to get dressed up and have fun trick or treating and eat a LOT of different candies! However, it’s quite a different sentiment and experience for those of us with food allergy. Especially for children with milk, egg, peanut, tree nut and…
Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) Update
We began our oral immunotherapy program almost two years ago and are pleased to report 34 patients have been enrolled. We now offer OIT for 4 foods: peanut, milk, egg and cashew/pistachio. Of the 34, 32 are for peanut OIT and one each for milk and egg. 23 have completed and are now consuming a…
Now offering cashew OIT!
At Austin Family Allergy & Asthma, we are happy to announce we now offer cashew oral immunotherapy (OIT) for our tree nut allergic patients. Cashew is the most common tree nut allergy and is rarely outgrown. Cashew commonly cross reacts to pistachio, so following cashew OIT, most patients can safely ingest pistachios as well. Cashew…
new peanut allergy treatment study
There is been a lot of press recently about a new FDA approved treatment for peanut allergy. As food allergy specialists, we are certainly excited about additional treatment options for patients. For years avoidance was the mainstay of care and accidental exposure to trace amounts of peanut could be dangerous for the sensitive patient. This…
OIT Update
What a big day! Anna ate her first peanut yesterday after 3 months of therapy. Way to go Anna! Here is our latest OIT progress report: We enrolled our first peanut OIT patient in June of 2017. We have now enrolled a total of 21 patients including 2 new starts last week with another new…
Introducing Egg OIT
Food Allergy Updates: As Austin’s leaders in food allergy, we are happy to announce another addition to our oral immunotherapy (OIT) program now available at our food allergy center. For our egg allergic patients we now offer egg OIT. Egg will make the third food we have for OIT joining peanut and milk. Also, did…
2018 Food Allergy Awareness Week
The Empire State Building was lit teal on May 13, 2018 to kick off Food Allergy Awareness Week! This year Food Allergy Awareness Week is May 13-19, 2018. Created in 1998, the goal of Food Allergy Awareness Week is to educate the public about food allergies, a potentially life-threatening disease. Food Allergy Awareness Week provides…
Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) Update - May 2018
We are pleased to report that we have now enrolled our 16th patient. 15 patients have been treated for peanut therapy and one child recently began therapy for milk allergy. 5 have completed and are in the maintenance phase, while 3 additional patients are very near completion. Fortunately, none of our patients have withdrawn from…
Milk OIT
Yes we do! We’re thrilled to expand our Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) program to include milk. So now you can enjoy a classic combo: PB&J with milk! We believe this will be an important food allergy treatment option for patients who’ve not been able to “outgrow” their milk allergy. The concept and the protocol is very…