Allergy testing

[Hope]

Our son is 8 and developed tics last spring. They are pretty mild compared to what others have described. However, we are concerned and went to an Environmental Medicine Physician. She is also a Pediatrician so I thought that she would be a good person to consult. She wants to run blood work, which we are going to have drawn this coming Saturday.

 

My question is concerning eliminating foods from his diet this week. I have planned to eliminate dairy this week to see if we notice any changes. However, I was also thinking that maybe this isn't a good week to eliminate foods. Will it effect this blood work? I don't want to adversely effect his results.

 

What do you think? Should I wait until next week to do dairy elimination?

 

 

I have tried to eliminate artificial dyes, additives, preservatives and all those kinds of things and replace with organic but up until now I haven't done a total elimination of any one food group....

 

I appreciate any advice you have! Thanks!

[CSP]

Hi Hope,

 

If your son doesn't eat lets say eggs all that often you could start with that this week, but I would think waiting would give you peace of mind. Taking out the bad stuff is a good start.

 

Good Luck,

C.P.

[ad_ccl]

I would wait until you have done the blood work before changing anything. Then there is no second guessing.

[Hope]

Thanks for your responses. I think I will wait on totally eliminating milk until next week. I don't know why I didn't think about it effecting the tests until earlier today. Of course, that was after I had already told him we were all going to stay away from dairy this week.

 

Good thing is that now I have more time to look up some dairy-free recipes and foods.

Anyone have a good resource for these type of recipes?

 

Thanks again!

[Tracey111]

Hope,

 

Can you tell me what type of blood tests they are doing? I am going to go to an allergist to talk about food allergies. I am just wondering what you doctor will be testing for? Thanks for any info.