[Food hyposensitization--new approach and treatment for food allergies].

Although most infants will recover from food allergy within the early years of life, at least one fifth will carry on with the disease until school age. Recent studies have managed to develop increased tolerance in children with food allergy by food hyposensitization with slowly increasing orally administered doses. In these studies either complete or partial increase of food tolerance for 80% of subjects has been achieved. The clinical results seem promising, and immunologic changes upon food hyposensitization look similar to those observed with other hyposensitization therapies.