Food allergy is on the rise within the pediatric population. Having a food allergy can cause medical, nutritional and psychological issues in those who suffer with it. Although making the appropriate diagnosis of food allergy is very important, properly diagnosing food allergy has been a challenge. Skin prick testing and food-specific immunoglobulin-e (IgE) testing of the blood can give positive results that are false. Currently, Oral Food Challenges are the best way to diagnose a food allergy. Unfortunately, Oral Food Challenges are time consuming and may not be readily available to suspected food allergy sufferers. This study is designed to examine the effectiveness of an allergy-detecting blood test called ImmunoCAP manufactured by the company, ThermoFisher. Soybean is one of the eight allergy-inducing foods that are responsible for 90% of all food allergies. A part of the study is to allow the study Sponsor to use some of the blood sample collected from you to test if genetically-changed soy has more or less allergy producing factors. This is important to the Sponsor to test the safety of their genetically modified soy.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
10
Oral food challenge to determine allergy to soy
Children's Hospital Colorado
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Evaluate soy-specific IgE antibody
To quantitatively and/or qualitatively evaluate the soy-specific IgE antibody reactivity to biotech and conventional soybean varieties using sera from clinically documented soybean-allergic subjects.
Time frame: approximately 2 weeks
Relationship between IgE, components and oral food challenge
To determine the relationship between whole soy-specific IgE, IgE to components Gly m 4, 5, and 6, and OFC outcomes.
Time frame: approximately 2 weeks
Monsanto repository
To establish a serum repository at Monsanto of soy-reactive allergic patients
Time frame: approximately 2 weeks
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