We took our 11 month old son to be tested for food allergies. We have a 3 yr old who has very severe allergies to milk, egg, and peanut. Our oldest had plenty more food allergies when he was my youngest age. We have been limiting the baby's diet to things that are not commonly allergic. We decided to have him tested to see if we could expand his diet without trying it ourselves saving us from any serious reactions. Luckily, the little guy is tested only highly allergic to milk using the back scratch test. He was a "4" with a this test "1" being slightly allergic and "4 with satellite hives" being the worst case. All other foods like egg white was 1 and peanut and pecan was negative! All other foods like tomato, corn, fish were negative using this test. I asked my allergist if I could introduce these foods into his diet now. He says we should do the interdermal test ( which is 20 shots in the arms, ouch for a baby!), since these foods are high allergic foods and some others only then would I know if it's ok. I asked him if I can't just try these foods on him since there's a neg. reaction on the skin test. He said by doing this I could sensitized him to the food and make him allergic to it. I just hate torturing this little guy with these shots, but then again I want to know what's safe for him to eat. My older son had this test done and he was neg. on the back scratch test with banana and corn, but interdermally he was a "3" allergic to it. A lot of other things they tested were neg. with this test too. He did seem bothered by corn and banana if I gave a lot to him. I'd like to know if anyone has any experience with back scratch testing and having the actual food injected into them with these shots and do you suggest I have him tested? Thanks for the help.