Appointment with Allergist/Immunologist

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

We took my 10 mo. old to see the allergist yesterday. He agreed to

test her. We opted for the one blood draw (instead of the *prick*

test) although it's supposed to be less accurate. I just couldn't put

her through at least 20 pricks right now.

He did not think her violent vomiting after eating chicken was caused

by a food allergy but I tend to disagree. He said she would have to

have been exposed to chicken many times before in order to build

antibodies, blah, blah. He did not consider that she is still only

primarily breastfed. I don't think he knows much about breastfeeding.

Anyway, just wondering about your thoughts on my opting for the blood

test. I figure at least this will give us a basic guideline. Right

now I'm so frightened to feed her anything other than her standard

pears, bananas and zucchini (she seems okay with these.)

Thanks for your thoughts.

~Terri

[Guest guest]

Dear Terri,

We did the USBiotek test and it only requires one or two finger

pricks. Our 2 year old was fine with the prick but we didn't let it

dry enough and the sample was rejected. We will do it again this

week.

It only requires that you saturate two very little pads, let them

dry and ship them. Seems easy enough for me.

Flor

>

> Hi everyone,

> We took my 10 mo. old to see the allergist yesterday. He agreed

to

> test her. We opted for the one blood draw (instead of the *prick*

> test) although it's supposed to be less accurate. I just couldn't

put

> her through at least 20 pricks right now.

>

> He did not think her violent vomiting after eating chicken was

caused

> by a food allergy but I tend to disagree. He said she would have

to

> have been exposed to chicken many times before in order to build

> antibodies, blah, blah. He did not consider that she is still

only

> primarily breastfed. I don't think he knows much about

breastfeeding.

>

> Anyway, just wondering about your thoughts on my opting for the

blood

> test. I figure at least this will give us a basic guideline.

Right

> now I'm so frightened to feed her anything other than her standard

> pears, bananas and zucchini (she seems okay with these.)

>

> Thanks for your thoughts.

> ~Terri

>