Cow's Milk Elimination for Treatment of Eosinophilic Esophagitis

Running, not enrolling

Conditions studied: Eosinophilic Esophagitis

In brief

The investigators seek to assess the efficacy of removing cow's milk from an EoE patient's diet. This will be determined by esophageal inflammation and clinical and histological response to the milk elimination treatment.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05083156

Run by

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

People needed

54

Starts

2012-03-01

Expected to finish

2027-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-06-05

Who can join

Age: 1 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients aged 1-18
• Patients who meet the criteria for diagnosis of EoE with ≥15 eosinophils per high power field and who had been previously treated with an adequate dose of PPI for 6-8 weeks or had a normal 24 hour ph probe study will be recruited from the patients seen by one of the physicians in the EoE clinic at Lurie Children's and other participating centers
• Patients who agree to cow's milk elimination diet as their treatment of EoE

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who started on oral or swallowed steroids (prior use of steroids that was discontinued more than two months prior to enrollment does not constitute an exclusion criterion)
• Patients who are unable to tolerate the cow's milk elimination diet
• Patients with concurrent eosinophilic gastroenteritis or eosinophilic colitis

Where it is running

• Ann & Robert H Lurie Childjren's Hospital of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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