title: A double-blind study of food extract injection therapy: a preliminary report.
abstract: A double-blind, crossover study of food extract injection therapy is reported. There was a significantly better response to food injection therapy than to placebo. In many cases the response of lifelong, severe, intractable syndromes was rapid and dramatic, often beginning in three to four days, and symptoms often returned within three to four days after beginning a course of placebo therapy. In clinical practice this should prove to be a useful practical tool for demonstrating the etiologic role of foods and providing substantial relief in several serious syndromes for which no other satisfactory method of etiologic diagnosis or effective therapy is available.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003888:Desensitization, Immunologic; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D005512:Food Hypersensitivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010919:Placebos
chemical_list: D010919:Placebos