Natural History of Food Allergy - 2018 WSAAI update

This is a Twitter summary from the 2018 WSAAI meeting. This summary was compiled from the tweets posted by @MatthewBowdish, an allergist/immunologist, who attended the 2018 Western Society of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (WSAAI) meeting. The tweets were labeled #WSAAI. The text was edited and modified by me.

Robert A. Wood on The Natural History of Food Allergy.

Trends in Cow's Milk IgE over time by resolution status: https://twitter.com/MatthewBowdish/status/955962294298599425

So, while IgE is not a perfect predictor of CMA resolution, it is the best predictor.

In CoFAR study about 53% of those with milk allergy resolved by 63 months: https://twitter.com/MatthewBowdish/status/955963209491427328

If you had a baseline milk IgE of greater than 10, then you only had about 20% likelihood of cows milk allergy resolution by 72 months: https://twitter.com/MatthewBowdish/status/955963776838254592

You can go on to CoFAR website and use online calculator to obtain the likelihood of resolution of cow's milk allergy by first grade - http://www.cofargroup.org



Allergic (atopic) march (click here to enlarge the image). Allergic (Atopic) March refers to the natural history or typical progression of allergic diseases that often begin early in life. These include atopic dermatitis (eczema), food allergy, allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and asthma.

Egg tolerance also predicted by peak egg-IgE: https://twitter.com/MatthewBowdish/status/955965244139913216

Similarly, wheat and soy allergy resolution is also predicted by the IgE level - higher IgE, less likely to outgrow.

Conclusion & clinical implications - cow's milk, egg, wheat & soy allergy: https://twitter.com/MatthewBowdish/status/955966368486076416

21.5% of children with a clear diagnosis of peanut allergy were shown to have outgrown their allergy (Skolnick JACI 2001), this still pretty much holds true today.

For patients with persistent peanut allergy, the rates of accidental peanut exposures and severe rxns may be lower than 10-20 years ago (Newman et al @AnnalsAllergy 2012).

While peanut IgE levels cannot be used to predict reaction severity in individual patients, higher levels are overall associated with more severe reactions. (Newman et al @AnnalsAllergy 2012).