<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> >I had a food allergy test yesterday morning, the kind where they stick you >in the back with 20 or 30 plastic prongs dipped in various food items. I >had no skin reactions but a few hours later I had an internal reaction >similar to my gluten ingestion reactions. Unless my breakfast of Barbara's >Corn Flakes and EdenBlend was tainted, I cannot imagine what else could >have caused this. Has anybody experienced this type of reaction from a >food allergy test? I had a full battery of allergy tests run last May (220 sticks!!), and none of them came back positive, even the things I have traditionally had allergic reactions to (like pollen, cats, gluten-containing grains). However, they then decided to retest using the injection method ( a small amount of the concentrated antigen injected below the surface of the skin) with only a few of the antigens. When they injected the wheat antigen (and I didn't know which one it was until later when they read me the results) I have an almost immediate and severe reaction to it. I don't know if this will help, but I guess it can't hurt. Good luck! Sarah W. "Friday" Stokes (= The College of William and Mary [log in to unmask]