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I have a level 3 allergy to lobster and a level 5 allergy to dust. what is the cause of this?

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Dr. John Chiu answered

Sensitization.: A positive immunocap ige or allergy prick test to food is at best 50% predictive of a positive response on food challenge. Usually, the higher the response , the higher the likelihood of being allergic to that food. You should talk to your allergist about this. By the way, I am not referring to igg antibody to foods.

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Answered 8/17/2016

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