Posted by: lakeswimr
« on: March 29, 2013, 10:23:15 AM »Testing alone can't diagnose a food allergy so unless you have reason to suspect a particular food is an allergens I would not test for foods. You could easily end up with a bunch of false positive results that lead you to avoid foods needlessly. Anything to which you have not seen a reaction might be a false positive. What lead you to test for eggs, etc? What reactions have you seen? Testing can NOT tell whether a reaction will be 'mild' or potentially life threatening and so if you have an IgE food allergy you should treat it as potentially life threatening and have epi pens. I'm worried that your allergist might not be that great if he/she told you your child's allergy is 'mild'. There is no way to know that from standard testing. There is a more recent test for peanuts that can tell who is at risk of anaphylaxis but it is a special test not usually used yet.