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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I don't believe in are the blood tests that tell you to what you are allergic.

"These procedures (IgG testing, electrodermal testing, cytotoxic testing, provocation/neutralization, and applied kinesiology) have largely been unproven and may lead to unnecessary elimination diets."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29132671/

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"A recent review of the role of food in atopic dermatitis concluded that a small number of particular foods may provoke exacerbations of atopic dermatitis in a subset (about 35%) of individuals, and food-specific antibody testing of any kind does not identify these instances."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3314037/[/quote]

No decent allergist orders blood testing in the absence of an obvious reaction.
Reactions trump testing because, yes, the bloodwork isn't always accurate.  But it can help confirm, for those who have had a reaction.  But doing the testing just for the heck of it, in the absence of a history of reaction to that particular food, isn't reliable.  At least that is according to our pediatric allergist who refuses to test foods until we have tried them and observed a reaction.[/quote]

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