title: Oral rush desensitization to cow milk. Following of desensitized patients during three years.
abstract: We report the induction of tolerance in four patients with severe IgE-mediated cow's milk allergy, with an oral rush desensitization by introducing increasing daily doses of cow's milk (CM) for 5 days under clinical conditions in order to enable the patients to tolerate 200 ml of CM daily. Our results indicate that we can induce clinical tolerance in CM allergy by oral administration of progressive doses of milk. After three years of following, the four patients are taking CM with good tolerance. Specific IgE levels of casein have decreased progressively during these three years until being not detectable in three of the four patients and also a reduction has been observed in the cutaneous skin prick test reactions to CM.
authors.affiliation: Allergy Unit, Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Spain. martorell_ant@gva.es
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martorell Aragonés
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Félix Toledo
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Cerdá Mir
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martorell Calatayud
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003888:Desensitization, Immunologic / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D007073:Immunoglobulin E / Q000097:blood / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D008892:Milk / Q000276:immunology*; D016269:Milk Hypersensitivity / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D007073:Immunoglobulin E