Non-IgE Pediatric Food Allergy: Clinical and Research Issues
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Allergy and Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2025 | Viewed by 501
Special Issue Editors
2. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IISGM), Madrid, Spain
Interests: medicine; probiotics; microbiota; food-allergy; nutrition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The pathophysiology of non-IgE mediated food allergy is mostly unknown, and its incidence is increasing. This explains the lack of diagnostic and predictive markers for this entity, and its possible under-diagnosis. Unlike IgE-mediated allergy, the symptoms of non-IgE are typically delayed from hours to weeks after protein ingestion, and there is actually no confirmatory test available, so diagnosis can be a challenge. This problem impacts both allergy and gastrointestinal pediatricians but is usually handled differently because of its different manifestations. Some non-IgE diseases (eosinophilic esophagitis or enteropathy) are likely emerging due to immunotherapy or desensitization treatments.
The aim of this Special Issue is to encourage pediatric gastroenterologists and allergy specialists to share their experience in managing non-IgE disease. Cutting-edge studies could provide new biomarkers or new clinical scores for the diagnosis of non-IgE diseases, regarding any kind of food allergy. This research could provide new clinical tools for the monitoring of immune tolerance of food allergies.
We will consider original research articles, reviews, and case reports that explore novel diagnostic methods and biomarkers of non-IgE food allergy and early signs of oral immunotolerance failure.
Dr. Jimena Pérez-Moreno
Dr. María Elena Seoane-Reula
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food allergy
- non-IgE-mediated allergy
- immunotherapy
- allergy management
- enteropathy
- eosinophilic esophagitis
- specific oral tolerance induction (SOTI)
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