Common allergy tests in infants with cow’s milk allergy
This is a very interesting article that highlights the frustration physicians that use functional medicine experience in dealing with mainstream physicians. I very frequently hear of my patients going to an allergist for allergy tests, to be told that they were allergic to dust, pollens and moulds. It is the rare occurrence when food allergies are even taken into consideration. And even when they are, “traditional” tests are used. As far as I’m concerned, many of the usual tests run for allergies are just short of worthless. Sure, they may identify the potential for anaphalaxis, but for the patients experiencing chronic sinusitis, fatigue and muscle aches they do not give us the info we need. Elimination of a potential allergen for at least two weeks (so allergies may take up to 12 days to show a response!!) and reintroduction of that substance is the gold standard by which other tests are judged. This article points out that most of the other tests fail miserably…
Synergy : Clinical & Experimental Allergy 31 (3), 423-429