Increased awareness is needed around which patients to test for IgE-mediated food allergy, as well as terms commonly associated with IgE-mediated food allergy testing, in order to optimise patient ...

Milk protein allergy (MPA), also known as food protein induced allergic proctocolitis (FPIAP), is one of the most common ...

To diagnose a food allergy for sure, an allergist may do a blood test in addition to skin testing. This involves taking a small blood sample to send to a lab for analysis. The lab checks the blood for ...

Protein contact dermatitis is an allergic skin reaction ... these patients had positive scratch-test results and (in some cases) specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies to the food they handled ...

A RAST (a radio-allergo-sorbent test) is a blood test carried out by your GP or a specialist allergy clinic. It looks for specific IgE antibodies - certain antibodies in our system that react to ...

Correspondence to Dr Lotte Harleman, Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, ST5 Paediatrics, Westburn road, Aberdeen AB25 2ZG, UK; lotteharleman{at}hotmail.com, l.harleman{at}nhs.net ...

Blood testing is a method allergy sufferers may not know about ... What information allergists use from blood drawing is something called IGE. “It’s the protein in the body that’s ...

Subjects with a history of allergic rhinitis, asthma or atopic eczema then underwent skin prick testing to confirm underlying IgE mediated disease. RESULTS Analysis of the data by conditional logistic ...