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First visit with Ped. Allergist & Skin testing!

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Fri, 05/10/2002 - 04:41

Klutzi

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Well, Thursday, May 16th, we take Jamie, our PA daughter to the ped. Allergist for the first time. They will do skin tests for food allergies.

What exactly are skin tests & is there any chance of her having a bad reaction?? The nurse at the allergist said the worse that can happen is she may have a bad rash. I'm just curious if anything worse could happen.

Jamie is 2 years old & had her first reaction at 18 months after I gave her peanut butter. Her lip swelled to 3 times it's normal size & she had a rash/hives from head to toe. Since then she has had several other rashes that we are not sure if they are do to cross-contamination of peanuts or from some other food allergy.

Thanks for any input. I'm a little nervous about her having skin-prick tests.
Lea

Fri, 05/10/2002 - 10:03

BENSMOM

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Yes, you can have a bad reaction from a skin prick test. Since it's obvious from your daugther's first reaction that she's allergic to peanuts, there's really no need for a skin prick test. It won't tell you a darn thing you don't already know. You might want a CAP-RAST blood test just to get a baseline score to follow over the years. As for other skin prick tests, I'd go ahead and test for suspect foods, but understand there is an enormously high instance of false positives with skin prick tests. So unless you suspect a food, there's really no point in testing. Good luck.

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