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Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is an immune-mediated condition that affects children and adults, and is believed to be triggered by food antigens. Use of a 6-food elimination diet (SFED) that excludes cow's milk, wheat, egg, soy, peanut/tree nuts, and fish/shellfish has been shown to induce clinical as well as histologic remission in most children and adults with EoE, with cow's milk, wheat, egg and soy identified as the four most common trigger foods. In this issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kagalwalla and colleagues analyzed the results of a prospective multicenter study of pediatric patients with EoE to determine if exclusion of only 4 foods (4-FED: cow's milk, wheat, egg, and soy) was effective in inducing clinical, endoscopic, and histologic remission.

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