Parents, please take note! Don’t let allergy tests mislead you

Learn how allergy tests help identify children's allergies and guide effective treatment strategies with expert insights from Dr. Liu Jiajia.

Author of this article: Liu Jiajia, otolaryngologist at Distinct Health

Some children have rhinitis, often sneezing and running nose; some children have eczema, rashes always come and go; some children retch as soon as they eat something, or there are blood streaks in the stool…

What to do? Go to the hospital for an allergy test, and find out that you are allergic to many things, sometimes even to things you often eat, and suddenly you don’t know what to eat!

Therefore, today I am sharing this case with you to help you understand the correct use and interpretation of allergy tests, and to correctly view the occurrence of “allergic symptoms” in children.*Thank you to the client and Dr. Liu Jiajia for their authorization and support for this article.

Client’s First Question

The child’s father has an allergic constitution, and the child has rhinitis, usually takes care of washing the nose, no special eczema, bloody stool, etc.Now more than 4 years old, due to sinusitis repeated fever for 1 week.

Checked for allergies,since childhood boiled eggs are very averse to dry retching performance.But like fried eggs and steamed eggs, thought it was just dislike the taste. Likepure milk but found that after eating it feels itchy, but there are no obvious allergic signs, so I have been drinking formula milk.

This time the test shows high allergy to eggs and milk, does this mean that eggs are completely off the table?