Table 2.

Efficacy of dietary approaches for inducing histologic remission in eosinophilic esophagitis [44,45].

Type of Diet	Adults, % (95% CI)	Children, % (95% CI)	Overall, % (95% CI)
Elemental	94.4	90.4 (83.5–95.5)	90.8 (84.7–95.5)
SFED	71.3 (61.7–80)	72.8 (62.5–82)	72.1 (65.8–78.1)
FFED	46.2	60	53.4 (35.7–70.6)
TFED	44	40	43
Gluten-free	88.8 (50.5–99.1)	45.5 (2.6–93.8)	58.7 (23.1–89.7)
Milk-free	100	66.3 (44.7–84.8)	68.2 (47.8–85.6)
Target	32.2 (17.8–48.7)	47.9 (36.8–59.1)	45.5 (35.4–55.7)

SFED: six-food elimination diet; FFED: four-food elimination diet; TFED: two-food elimination diet.