In patients with a walnut allergy double blind placebo controlled food challenge with walnut will be combined with the intake of proton pump inhibitor (PPI) or with placebo to assess the impact of PPI on threshold level and on clinical manifestation.
1. detailed case history, blood sampling and prick testing with different foods will performed. 2. double blind food provocation with with three meals containing either placebo or walnut in walnut allergic patients will be performed. 3. the provocation will be combined with the intake of drug (omeprazole) or placebo (mannitol) blinded in capsules.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
44
patients with walnut allergy will be exposed during 5 days before food challenge with Omeprazole
patients with walnut allergy will be exposed during 5 days before food challenge with Placebo
Hospital Clinico San Carlos
Madrid, Spain
University Hospital Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
amount of walnuts that induces an allergic reaction assessed in milligram
The amount of walnut which induces an allergic reaction in walnut allergic patients will be assessed in milligram by titrated challenges under concommitant intake of therapeutic doses of omeprazole versus placebo
Time frame: up to 18 months
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