The current standard treatment for food allergy is strict avoidance of the allergenic food and prescription of epinephrine to be carried at all times in the event of exposure. Excitingly, current research has provided food allergic people with new treatment options! One of these such options is called Food Sublingual Immunotherapy (SLIT).
During SLIT, the threshold for which an allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) would occur is increased, providing the person with protection in the case of accidental ingestion of the allergenic food. This process may allow a person to tolerate the allergenic food in very small quantities leading to a “bite-proof” state. Having “bite-proof” protection is a sigh of relief to parents of children with food allergy as well as teenagers and adults that live day to day with a food allergy.
