The goal of Food Challenge visits is to appropriately cross-match your child's highest risk food allergens to associated bio-similar proteins, which were measured during the intake process of the program.
If your child is successfully exposed to proteins at home, their chance of passing their calculated challenge is over 95%. However, safety is always our top priority. Your child’s first exposure to any food will always occur in our center. Subsequent dose exposure will be graded and targeted against the amount of time it takes for your child’s system to adapt.
At the end of a treatment cycle, your child will undergo a monitored, safe, comprehensive food challenge to a pre-determined large amount of food protein, which then closes that cycle of treatment. Your child will repeat these cycles over months to years of time, ultimately reaching tolerance visits and remission.
Conditioning involves passing “high dose” challenges of foods which are in the sensitized column on your child’s snapshot. After safely passing challenges to these foods which contain key proteins, such as albumins, you child’s “food cluster” is pulled toward the tolerant column. Treating with these biosimilar proteins pulls more anaphylactic proteins away from the anaphylactic column into the sensitized column. Making treatment of these proteins safer and more successful.
