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Erica, what did your specialist mean when he said he wanted to wait until the
results were ok? What is ok? and what is the provocation test exactly?
>My specialist does not want to do the provocation test untill his
>blood results are OK, because you risk a too much.
My son has had the RAST test done three times now over a period of 5 years and,
although he's on a complete elimination diet for dairy, his milk scores and
total IGE keep going up.
Kathy
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Allergy Testing
Author: "Christiaan W. Van Nood" <[log in to unmask]> at ALZAINET
Date: 9/25/97 10:16 AM
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.
Hope I've been of help, Erica
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> Subj: Allergy Testing
> Date: 97-09-24 19:00:31 EDT
> From: RALXTRM
> To: NO-MILK @maelstrom.st.johns.edu
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> 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.
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