If you’re like me, there have been times when you wondered whether your child actually had a food allergy or whether they had outgrown the allergy.  Both of our children outgrew dairy allergies which we didn’t know until we actually tried milk with them under our doctor’s guidance.  Until recently, we thought Megan might have outgrown her kiwi allergy but she wasn’t willing to do an oral challenge.  Unfortunately, as you may know from an earlier blog post and the Nonuttin’ News, we found out the hard way in December that kiwi is still very much one of her food allergies.

What if there was a blood test that was far more accurate than anything we have right now (skin or blood) that could give a definitive diagnosis without an oral challenge?  Would you feel relieved?

I would.  That test has now been created for peanut allergies at UHSM (University Hospital South Manchester), the University of Manchester, and Phadia AB in Uppsala, Sweden, which predicts whether an allergic reaction to peanuts will develop with more than 95 per cent certainty.

To read more about this see:  http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/175797.php.