Re:Ask HN: My child food allergy from prick test. Can't find...
by PaulHoule on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @08:03AM
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What prompted you to take your child to the allergist? Are there any symptoms?
It doesn’t hurt to eliminate a food to see if it makes a difference, that is probably what your doc told you to do.
My take is that food allergies usually have extreme effects. For all the people who are gluten free because they think it’s cool, people who have celiac violently void both sides of their digestive track when they get eat wheat.
Myself I had an anaphylactic attack when I was 4 or so and remember getting prick tests from my family doctor which were inconclusive. I”ve never had a dangerous allergic reaction but I have hay fever, break out in hives from a certain perfume, had asthma in my 30s, got allergy shots, and had the asthma resolve and haven’t used an inhaler or other drugs for it for a long time.
It doesn’t hurt to eliminate a food to see if it makes a difference, that is probably what your doc told you to do.
My take is that food allergies usually have extreme effects. For all the people who are gluten free because they think it’s cool, people who have celiac violently void both sides of their digestive track when they get eat wheat.
Myself I had an anaphylactic attack when I was 4 or so and remember getting prick tests from my family doctor which were inconclusive. I”ve never had a dangerous allergic reaction but I have hay fever, break out in hives from a certain perfume, had asthma in my 30s, got allergy shots, and had the asthma resolve and haven’t used an inhaler or other drugs for it for a long time.