Whats the best way of finding out if ur child has a nut allergy without ending u!
Question: If you don't want to try eating, and I wouldn't recomend it, try rubbing a nut on your child's arm. If there is a swelling at the site, your child is allergic. Take it from there. If you opt to go with the allergy tests, they are very expensive, make sure they test for EVERYTHING ! I knew from very young that I was allergic to tree nuts, but not peanuts. I found out the hard way, that tree nuts also include pine nuts, and they are in everything these days. I was tested about 25 years ago, and nobody put pine nuts in stuff then. My sister is allergic to shellfish, if she is in one of those Japanese places where they cook in front of you, her eyes can swell shut.
Answers: If you don't want to try eating, and I wouldn't recomend it, try rubbing a nut on your child's arm. If there is a swelling at the site, your child is allergic. Take it from there. If you opt to go with the allergy tests, they are very expensive, make sure they test for EVERYTHING ! I knew from very young that I was allergic to tree nuts, but not peanuts. I found out the hard way, that tree nuts also include pine nuts, and they are in everything these days. I was tested about 25 years ago, and nobody put pine nuts in stuff then. My sister is allergic to shellfish, if she is in one of those Japanese places where they cook in front of you, her eyes can swell shut.
Make a Dr. appt for your child. There is a skin test they can do and also a blood test (RAS) they can do. Both are fairly simple tests and most likely will be covered by your insurance.
call a doctor.
and ask for a skin test on your kidd.
then blah blah blah the skin raises if you're allergic to that certain food/thing in your arm.
Ask yourself these questions........
Is there a history of multiple, serious allergy in the family history?
Is the child asthmatic?
Does the child suffer from eczema?
If the answers to these questions are "yes", then it may be worth speaking to the doctor about some skin pr*ck tests.
If none of the above apply, then the only way to find out is to give the child some food with nuts in and wait and see - the chances are he/she will be fine, but you may not be confident enough to do that.
Remember that the first nut encounter will NOT cause an allergic reaction.....only second and subsequent contact would result in an allergic reaction if the child is sensitive to nuts. The FIRST encounter would cause the body to form antibodies to the nut protein and these antibodies would be activated the next time the child eats nuts - this would then produce symptoms.
My eldest son has a severe nut allergy which he inherited from his father (multiple allergies on fathers side of the family).
My youngest son has a different father and he's fine - no allergy at all.
I don't suffer from any allergies either so I figured that my youngest would be okay, which he is.
go to an allergist, they can do a skin test or a blood test
I got an allergy test done. go to your doctor and explain what symptoms he has to make you worried.
the doctor will refer you to a hospital clinic.
when you go there they'll stick these plaster things to your childs back and you need to keep it on for three days or something.
then you go back to the hospital and theyll take the plasters off and they can tell by the marks the plasters make what, if anything, your child's allergic to.
A RAST blood test will detect an allergy, provided exposure to the allergen has been recent enough. If there has been no exposure for a very prolonged period of time it is possible to get a false negative result. Prick sin testing is an inappropriate way to look for food allergies as the mechanism for skin allergy is different and this test gives both false positive and negative results.
What led you to be concerned that your child might have an allergy? If there are no grounds for this the doctor will quite rightly refuse to carry out the test.