The treatment for food allergy is avoidance. Treatment with antiallergic medications, such as antihistamines or oral cromolyn, cannot be expected to decrease the risk of life threatening reactions. Anaphylaxis caused by food ingestion should be treated like any other anaphylactic reactions, except that nasogastric (NG) tube placement and lavage may be useful to remove residual food antigen. Immunotheraphy has no place in the treatment of food allergy.

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