"Ranée at Arabian Knits" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> Nad R > wrote:
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>> I would think that blood test could be done first.
>
> As I understand it, doing the elimination diet and "testing" each
> allergen afterward is the standard of practice, partly because the tests
> can miss some things. We'll do the blood test to see if there is
> something else we might have missed.

It is certainly not the standard here. If there are multiple allergies,
such testing will not find them. It is common practise here for skin pricks
for IgE and blood test for IgG.

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