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Hi mayoung-I think Jennifer
Hi mayoung-I think Jennifer answered this question pretty well in the other post, but I wanted to chime in.
The blood test simply tells you whether your child has a sensitivity to an allergen.
As Jennifer said-you should not take stock in the levels. If they are the ones off the blood lab sheet they are actually made up arbitrarily by the lab and not even an allergist.
Some people have extreme reactions at a level 1 and some people have minimal reactions at a level 3.
What rast/blood results ARE good for is to tell if the actual numbers are going down.
It's also safe to say that someone with a high rast peanut score (my son was 97) more than likely has a significant allergy to peanut.
Yes, allergies can get worse over time with our without exposure just as they can get better over time with of without exposure. It's really a crap shoot. Sorry!
The only thing you can do is avoid peanuts until the numbers go down low enough that you may be able to do a challenge. Usually this would mean a rast result lower than .35 or so.
Hope that helps to clear things up-if not feel free to ask any other questions.
Ruth
Thank you very much for
Thank you very much for answering my question.