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Allergy & Intollerance Testing kits available online - see link.

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Hilllary · 11/04/2007 11:15

I spent ages trying to find out if I could do home allergy testing.

I have used all the kits on myself & my dd's, results came back the same as the hospital results (so good if you just want to know)

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JodieG1 · 11/04/2007 11:19

How to they work? Do you use blood to test? Thinking of getting one for dd who we think has a food allergy.

Hilllary · 11/04/2007 11:21

Hi Jodie - yes you prick your finger and fill up a little tube with blood - then it's rather like a pregnancy test you have to put it in the applicator and wait for 1/2 hour. Really simple.

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JodieG1 · 11/04/2007 11:22

Thanks, will have fun trying to do that with dd!

Hilllary · 11/04/2007 11:23

Yes difficult but its the only real way of knowing

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tatt · 11/04/2007 18:02

we found the test difficult to use (because it was hard to know when you had enough blood in it. It gave a false negative result.

drosophila · 11/04/2007 21:23

Interesting DS has been tested a lot but I have often wondered about myself and DP.

PinkTulips · 14/04/2007 11:18

thank for that... we might be waiting another 6 months for dd to see the paeds so good to know we can get some answers before that

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