Re: getting tests for food allergy`s

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Hi AngelI think if you had a food allergy you would know it soon after consuming the food. I have been referred to be tested for wheat and lactose allergies and triggers for my hayfever and rhinitis at Guys Hospital (although my GP Practice have an allergy clinic inhouse). Guy's did a prick test for each on my arm and apparently grass was my biggest hayfever trigger. I was not allergic to lactose or wheat but was told that I may be INTOLERANT which is a different issue and to find out, I should stop eating certain foods and reintroduce them, ie I would find out through a process of elimination.It may be best to find out if your Practice has an inhouse allergy clinic, and if not, ask for a referral to a specialist clinic.LoveJacquiePS: I did make rather a fuss to be tested at Guy's and they couldn't get me the referral fast enough just to get rid of me! > Hi all, have anyone got tests for food allergy's from their doctor.(NHS) . thanks angel.>

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Hi there, thanks for this, i was considering getting it done privately. but thought my GP may order it.!!! i think it is the gluten,but it may be something else in the wheat. their is Gliadin or one of the other two things in it that may be the cause. but anywayit means no wheat products. angel.

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You can have a blood test for coeliac disease, but that isn't an allergy, it's a

different category of reaction. Food allergies are usually strong enough that

you know if you respond to something; but food intolerances are not possible to

establish by any tests other than exclusion testing (remove them from your diet,

and then re-introduce them and see if anything happens.) There are tests

advertised for food intolerance but as far as I can tell, they are bogus.

You can have skin testing for allergies; in my case it was for respiratory

allergens, but they taped about 20 metal discs to my back with different

allergens in each one (plant pollens, mould spores, etc). They removed them

after 24hrs or so - they were all negative in my case. If they run that test for

respiratory allergens then they probably can do it for food allergens too. That

was in the allergy clinic of a hospital, referred by my doctor on the NHS.

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> Hi all, have anyone got tests for food allergy's from their doctor.(NHS) .

thanks angel.

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