{"id":12956,"date":"2022-10-05T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/?post_type=ec-news&#038;p=12956"},"modified":"2022-10-05T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T10:01:00","slug":"trigger-food-elimination-diets-are-effective-for-patients-with-eosinophilic-esophagitis","status":"publish","type":"ec-news","link":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/trigger-food-elimination-diets-are-effective-for-patients-with-eosinophilic-esophagitis\/","title":{"rendered":"Trigger-Food Elimination Diets Are Effective for Patients With Eosinophilic Esophagitis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One treatment method for patients with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is the six-food elimination diet (SFED), which removes milk, wheat, soy, egg, tree nuts\/peanuts, and fish\/shellfish from the patient\u2019s diet. Foods are then gradually reintroduced to determine whether any of the removed foods are the trigger food for that patient.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This retrospective study (2006-2021) included 213 patients who completed the elimination diet. Of the patients, 62% had a histologic response, and 77% of responders had symptom improvement after completion of the SFED. With the initial SFED, 54% (n=115) achieved &lt;15 eosinophils per high-power field (responders), which increased to 58% (n=123) after an extended SFED. The Eosinophilic Esophagitis Endoscopic Reference Score improved in responders (mean score improved from 3.6 to 2.4;&nbsp;<em>P<\/em>&lt;.05), whereas the score worsened for nonresponders (mean score worsened from 3.8 to 4.4;&nbsp;<em>P<\/em>=.06). Of the 78% of responders who underwent food reintroduction, the majority of patients (69%) had just one food trigger identified during the food reintroduction process. The most common food identified was dairy (37%), followed by wheat (26%), soy (13%), egg (10%), nuts (6%), seafood (4%), corn (1%), and poultry (1%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One treatment method for patients with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is the six-food elimination diet (SFED), which removes milk, wheat, soy, egg, tree nuts\/peanuts, and fish\/shellfish from the patient\u2019s diet. Foods are then gradually reintroduced to determine whether any of the removed foods are the trigger food for that patient.&nbsp; This retrospective study (2006-2021) included 213 &#8230; <a title=\"Trigger-Food Elimination Diets Are Effective for Patients With Eosinophilic Esophagitis\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/trigger-food-elimination-diets-are-effective-for-patients-with-eosinophilic-esophagitis\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trigger-Food Elimination Diets Are Effective for Patients With Eosinophilic Esophagitis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1768,1791],"tags":[299,2129,2098,3443,3442],"class_list":["post-12956","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-journal-scan","category-esophagus","tag-eoe","tag-eosinophilic-esophagitis-2","tag-esophagus-2","tag-sfed","tag-six-food-elimination-diet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/12956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}