Clinical and Biological Efficacy of Peanut Oral Immunotherapy

An oral tolerance induction (OTI) protocol is conducted at the allergy Unit of Saint Vincent Hospital of Lille (France) in standard care since 2006. This protocol consists in exposing patients to regularly increasing doses of allergen. This protocol induces an increase of the threshold reactive dose (the minimum dose of allergen that triggered a reactive reaction) and a decrease of the quantity of specific immunoglobulin E (sIgE) against peanut proteins. The protocol is ended when the patient reaches a threshold reactive dose of 2942mg of peanut proteins, corresponding to 14 peanuts of middle size, which is the maximum dose of peanut that can be found in standard product in France. The investigators wish to study the evolution of the threshold reactive dose and of the sIgE of patients that have followed the OTI protocol. All the needed data are available in the medical records so the study will be conducted on retrospective data.