Best Test for Food Allergies?

[andreafrazer]

It's me again! Curious what you all have found to be the best test for food allergies. I tested my son via blood testing and through Kinesiology. (Yes, those vials with itsy bit of food in them placed on body parts actually do an accurate job in discerning basic food allergies.)

 

That said, what is the most up to date ways to determine what a child is allergic to? Saliva testing? Blood? Hair samples?

 

Suggestions would be great. This is for me, as well as for a friend who is new to the whole ticking deal.

 

Best -

 

Andrea

[andreafrazer]

No one here can answer this? That surprises me! Come out come out wherever you are!

[Chemar]

Andrea...you were asking for NEW methods and most of us have used methods that you already identified, so nothing new to add on my end. We used blood tests, skin prick, hair analysis and transdermal testing. All similar resilts.

 

Perhaps someone else has something newer?

[andreafrazer]

Thanks so much. I have really enjoyed this site. You have updated it so much and it's so user friendly.

[Wombat140]

Wasn't the question more "what are the BEST tests", rather than simply "what tests are available"? At any rate, I'd be interested in the answer to that question. I mean, taking an extreme example, Vega testing is still "available", as far as I know, but it's been tested out (I forget who, British Allergy Society or something like that) and found to be unable even to spot classical allergies that the person already knows about.

 

It's hard to know, I suppose, unless scientific studies have been done on a particular one, but can anyone here say at least which of the tests they've tried worked at all? I mean, which tests flagged something and removing it did make a definite difference - or conversely, which tests flagged a lot of things but removing them turned out to make no difference (false positives) or didn't flag things that it turned out were a problem (false negatives). Though of course you can get perfectly fair "false negatives" if it's a type of allergy that that test isn't intended to detect, e.g. IgG allergies on an IgE test.

 

Would be interested to hear anything about this, please. Apart from anything else, there's an increasing number of things my mum can't eat because she's not sure whether they upset her stomach, so it would be great if there was any way of finding out which really were to blame!