Suzanne DiPiero wrote:
>
> I've seen many posts from mother's who
> list numerous foods that their children are allergic to.  Because I am LI, I'm
> a bit uneducated about  the allergy, so please excuse me, as I am trying to
> learn about it.  My question is how do you know what foods are causing the
> allergic reaction.   If your child is sick after a meal, how do you know which
> food caused it?  Are there tests which pediatricians or allergists perform to
> determine, for example, an allergy to nuts or shellfish?

There are a lot of different medical tests that can be done, but the
best test is the test of experience.  If you eat something and it makes
you sick, you will usually try not to eat it again.  Sometimes it has
taken us years to find our allergies (usually because the offending food
is simply in everything - like my corn allergy), sometimes days (like my
orange juice allergy, it can be isolated quickly).  We still have a few
we can't track down in my family, but we will continue to try.

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