Allergy moms

Nita2603 · January 2013

Those of you who had allergy tests done for your kids...how did it go, what was the process? We have an appointment on the 5th and I would love to know what to expect.

cantalopes24 · January 2013

We ended up holding off an actual testing because our GI told us that they sometimes come back negative for a dairy allergy despite the kid having obvious symptoms so he wouldnt base anything off the results and they can outgrow them. She seems ok with dairy but she does get rashes after eating certain things. We're going to bring it up again at 2 years. I'm avoiding peanuts and treenuts but even E and I rarely eat them because of MH.

aandg · January 2013

My daughter has had the Food RAST test, which was ordered by her pedi after a really bad reaction to eggs. It's a blood test that tests for common food allergens. It rates everything on a scale of 0-6, 0 being non allergic and 6 being highly allergic. We have an appointment with the allergist next month and I think they are going to do the skin prick test then.

mrs.lizzieb · January 2013

E was tested after an allergic reaction to eggs. It was fairly simple- we had a consultation with the dr. for about 15 min, then they just put a liquid drop of each allergen on the back, and then we had to wait 30 min to see if she reacted. They only tested for eggs, the flu shot (since it has egg in it), and peanuts. She reacted only to the egg. She did want to scratch her back a little when she started reacting to the egg, but the office had a Baby Einstein dvd to help distract. It wasn't bad at all.

ETA: After her testing, the dr. came back in to just discuss the results, procedure if she has an allergic reaction, etc. Total appt time was about an hour or so. Oh, and she did have to have blood drawn to get more in-depth testing (as pp mentioned above) to see the severity of the allergy.

Creedon778 · January 2013

Previously the allergist wouldn't test DS until he was two but after this peanut allergy scare last weekend I'm going to call and see if they'll reconsider.

ababymaybe · January 2013

We have had both blood RAST and skin. RAST actually tells you the likelihood of an allergic reaction not the severity of the allergy. So we got a positive for dairy high, he had an Ana reaction so we knew already, eggs, soy trialled at dr later and he passed so false positive, wheat false positive, he had been eating it with no problem and has since. He later had skin testing to confirm his sesame allergy.

Neither test was too traumatic. There are a LOT of false positives which is really frustrating. And real life reactions or lack thereof trump tests. Good luck!

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