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How are today's allergy tests performed on children?
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Skin or Blood: Depending on the clinical history and suspected allergen, some practitioners choose the less painful and timely method, which is a blood test looking for specific ige antibodies, also called rast testing. Percutaneous skin tests are still the gold standard for allergy testing. This is something which you should discuss with your physician.
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Allergy testing : Allergy testing could be done in either in the form of. Skin testing or blood testing.
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