Time To Resolution Of Egg Allergy Utilizing A Baked Egg Diet: A Community-Based Practice Analysis

Abstract

Sparse studies have investigated the issue of time to tolerance of egg allergy with the use of baked-egg diets. It has been reported that fifty percent of baked-egg diet followers achieve fresh-egg tolerance in approximately 36 months, while, 47% of infants with egg allergy in the first year of life achieved fresh-egg tolerance by two years with trend of frequent baked egg consumption increasing the chance of tolerance. Tolergenic immune changes occur at 3 months in numerous studies on baked-egg diets and our own clinical experience suggests that egg allergy resolution on baked-egg diet occurs sooner than the above reported data.