During Food Challenge visits your child will come into the clinic for a monitored consumption of an allergen they have been sensitized to with previous dosing.
After each successful challenge, these foods will move from dosing into your child’s maintenance plan. We will also introduce new conditioning foods to your child during these visits, adding new allergens into your at-home dosing plan.
Each treatment plan requires a different number of visits to complete all Food Challenges. There will be a period of approximately 6-10 weeks between each visit for your child to complete their at-home dosing plan before the next challenge.
Our Challenge Clinic is located at:
2704 E. Willow Street
Signal Hill, California
90755
You will visit this clinic for all of your Food Challenge visits, Tolerance visits, and your first Remission visit.
Food manufacturing companies do sometimes change their labeling. It is always good practice to check the labels of the products you are using. As you move from challenge to challenge, your provider will give you instructions on which products/brands to source that the Food Scientists are using in our Food Lab. Some foods are more difficult to source, such as the milks or certain eggs that are seasonal. Your provider will give you your next set of products so you can better prepare future dosing needs. We recommend ordering some of these foods as soon as you can in case of shipping delays, since that can also mean a delay in your child’s treatment.
Refrigeration is required for proper preservation of doses. Please keep gummies refrigerated until you are ready to dose that day. You may still give the gummies for dosing if they melt, as melting does not compromise the protein content in any way.
Regardless of food protein, each of our gummies has a post-production shelf life of 6 months when refrigerated. Refrigeration temperature must be kept between 30° F and 40° F. For take-home dosing, every gelatin dose has a printed expiration date that reflects this shelf life.
