My son was blood tested. I believe it's called RAST test, but I can not
garantee. The results take a while. Through this test, we determinated to
which milk proteins my son is allergic.

My specialist does not want to do the provocation test untill his blood
results are OK, because you risk a too much.

Hope I've been of help,  Erica

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> Forwarded message:
> Subj:    Allergy Testing
> Date:    97-09-24 19:00:31 EDT
> From:    RALXTRM
> To:      NO-MILK @maelstrom.st.johns.edu
>
> I finally decided to take my son to an allergist and get him tested to
find
> out "exactly" what part of milk  that he is allergic to.  Many of you on
the
> list probably know what the results were because you've heard this
> yourselves.  He's not allergic to anything according to this doctor.  I
asked
> her how she explained the reaction that occurs when he drinks milk (IBS
and
> behavioral changes) and she had no answers other than," if that's what
> happens then don't feed him milk, but he is not allergic".  Boy was I mad.
> The tests that were done were the skin prick tests.  I know that I should
> have known better because of all that I read on the list but that's the
tests
> that they did and I couldn't remember what the other tests were.  If
someone
> could remind me of the best tests to have done I'd appreciate it.
>  I got a recommendation for a dr. that tests using the methods that Dr.
Doris
> Rapp does ( provocation/ neutralization) and I plan to give them a call.
>   The dr. that we went to said that this method is not scientific but Dr.
> Rapp sure is helping alot of people and at this point I'm not sure if I'm
> worried about how scientific things are.
> I watch my son react to milk and I didn't have to be a scientist to figure
> that out.
> If anyone is familar with this method of testing, I'd like to hear about
it.
>
> One more thing that I was thinking about is the fact that my son has
diarrhea
> every time he eats or drinks anything orange.  I thought I remembered some
> talk about citrus and milk allergies running together.  Or could this
just be
> a digestive thing.
> Any help would be great.
>
> Thanks,  Heidi L.