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Title: Parents: Allergy Tests & Food Diets Explained (WebMD)
Post by: LinksEtc on January 24, 2015, 12:59:08 PM
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"Parents: Allergy Tests & Food Diets Explained"
http://www.webmd.com/children/news/20150121/food-allergy-children?src=RSS_PUBLIC


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With the rise in food allergies over the past decade, allergists trained to treat children say they are seeing more cases where kids are being wrongly advised by pediatricians and primary care doctors to stop eating certain foods.

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In November 2014, a task force of the nation’s allergists repeated that doctors should not use lab tests alone to diagnose food allergies