Immunologic changes in children with egg allergy ingesting extensively heated egg

H Lemon-Mulé, HA Sampson, SH Sicherer… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Prior studies have suggested that heated egg might be tolerated by some
children with egg allergy. OBJECTIVE: We sought to confirm tolerance of heated egg in a
subset of children with egg allergy, to evaluate clinical and immunologic predictors of heated
egg tolerance, to characterize immunologic changes associated with continued ingestion of
heated egg, and to determine whether a diet incorporating heated egg is well tolerated.
METHODS: Subjects with documented IgE-mediated egg allergy underwent physician …