Sublingual versus oral immunotherapy for peanut-allergic children: a retrospective comparison

SJ Chin, BP Vickery, MD Kulis, EH Kim… - Journal of allergy and …, 2013 - jacionline.org
To the Editor: There has been considerable recent interest in developing therapies for food
allergy, an increasingly common and highly morbid disorder for which strict dietary
elimination and ready access to epinephrine remain the standard of care. 1 While both oral
immunotherapy (OIT) 2-4 and sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) 5 have been shown to
induce clinical desensitization to foods (reviewed in Narisety and Keet 6), no head-to-head
comparative analysis of the 2 treatments has been published. We conducted a retrospective …