Ep. 248 – The Best Kept Secret in the field of Allergy: Food Allergies Can Be Treated

Yes, food allergies can be treated. Xolair (omalizumab) is the first FDA-approved treatment for any food allergy beyond peanut, and it can lower the risk of a severe reaction after accidental exposure for children age one and older and for adults, including people with multiple food allergies. It is not a cure, and patients still avoid their trigger foods.Dr. Dean Mitchell talks with Dr. Dale Umetsu, the allergist-immunologist who spent decades in academic medicine at Stanford and Harvard before moving to Genentech to help move Xolair toward FDA approval for food allergy. Dr. Umetsu is the author of Beyond Avoidance: A Physician's Pursuit to Transform Food Allergy Treatment.

In this episode:

• How Xolair compares with oral immunotherapy (OIT) and sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT)
• How much protection it gives, why avoidance still matters, and how long protection lasts after injections stop
• How dosing works, and why Xolair does not help eosinophilic esophagitis
• Why food allergy treatment took so long to reach patients
• Food allergy testing: ImmunoCap, component testing, and basophil activation testing

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https://www.daleumetsu.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_T._Umetsu
https://notablepeopleproject.org/dale_umetsu

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/dale-umetsu-b66731b5/

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