Myths About Allergies
While many food reactions occur in children, adults are not immune to receiving a food allergy diagnosis. For Grace Guthrie, it had been a stressful season so she was psyched for the long weekend she and her boyfriend, Duncan, had planned in Arkansas’s Ozark Mountains in January 2020. The area had great museums and mountain views, and her parents had given her a gift certificate for a famous restaurant.The couple was visiting an art museum when they stopped to eat lunch at its café.
Gupta says, so it helps to start a food and symptom log before your appointment. You will likely be asked to take one of two tests: a blood test, done by a lab, or a skin test , in which potentially problematic substances are pricked or scratched into the skin. Doctors should test only foods you have a history of reacting to, Dr. Gupta says, because of the high rate of false positives.
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