Problems and challenges of oral food challenge test / 中华实用儿科临床杂志

ABSTRACT

Oral food challenge test (OFC) is necessary for the diagnosis of food allergies, however, this clinical diagnosis method has not been popularized yet in China.Although OFC is very important, the knowledge of it is very insufficient and even biased, which is the root cause of non-standard diagnosis of food allergy and over-dependence on allergen testing.Therefore, the necessity, safety, experiment design and results interpretation of OFC would be elucidated in this paper in order to improve the understanding of OFC.