Allergies

[bikerfuk]

So here is a partial list of foods I'm suppose to avoid due to allergies; Chicken of any kind including eggs, all dairy, gluten (what no donuts) all grains including rice, fish, beef, lamb and nuts. Joking I said "Well looks like I'll be living on lettuce" nope allergic to that too. Well mister allergy specialist you are out of your gourd if you

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[furr_a_bruin]

Hm. Was this from a RAST blood test, or did they actually do the skin-jab tests on you? When I saw an allergist he ran the RAST panel - but told me that sometimes people turn up "sensitive" to foods on that panel that actually cause them no trouble whatsoever in real life. I was told to avoid all of them for a month, and then test them one at a time, one per week. Guess what? I didn't react to ANY of them. (There were some foods I didn't test - like mustard - because I don't like and don't eat them anyway.)

Now, I can't say you'll be as lucky - but if your allergist didn't suggest doing a restricted diet for a while then trying these things one at a time to see if you actually react to them, he kinda fell down on the job in my view.

[broduke2000]

Hmm ... sounds like it's time for a 2nd opinion.

[furr_a_bruin]

I tend to agree. Given all the things on the list - it would be REALLY difficult to put a decent diet together. NO grains?! Like I said earlier - doing a "challenge" diet to see if the various foods really are a problem or not strikes me as only reasonable, to make SURE he needs to avoid/limit something.

My list was nowhere near as extensive, and let me tell you it's a MASSIVE pain to avoid wheat in our culture; add in corn and it becomes nearly impossible. At least I could eat rice cakes spread with butter and peanut butter!

[barbarian_rat]

Furr has a good point
It might be good to do some further testing to see if you really are allergic to everything, or maybe just dairy

[bikerfuk]

Furr it was an actually skin test on my back and forearms, being allergic to so many different things I need to run some eating tests to see what really is going to give me a reaction, a trail and error type of test. I did make an appointment to see another specialist but his office said that it was a standard test that was performed so it would be doubtful there would be any changes. I knew I has having dairy problems so that is not a concern. It's the beef and chicken that threw me for a loop. I'll keep everyone posted and thanks for all the support.

[furr_a_bruin]

Even with that - there's a difference between something being eaten and being injected under your skin. ;)

Best of luck - here's hoping a lot of those sensitivities don't turn out to be food allergies in practice.