Food Allergies Treatment

Question by jojoizz: Can skin prick testing for food allergies give a false positive result or are they reliable?
My 9 and a half month old daughter had a positive result for cows milk, however, I only gave her a little yogurt once after her eczema appeared. My gut tells me that it wasnt the cows milk product that caused it. Shes currently having soy products. Are the allergy tests pretty reliable?
I should add that she was on cows milk based formula until 6 months of age when her eczema appeared and the rash is only on her legs.

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Answer by laurencheerleader
when i got my skin prick testing done, i was told that it was very realiable. they thought i was allergic to nuts, and when they completed my test it came back negative. and my mother asked the same thing, “is it realiable” and they said absolutly. it is a very slim chance that it was a false reading.

if you really want to be sure, talk to your child’s pediatrician and see what he says.

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About 6 mths ago diagnosed severe milk allergy (Blood LgE Tests confirmed milk, peanut, onion, rice and mold allergies.) My symptoms still remain, slightest bit of milk = ER visit.
Went to specialist and did EVERY allergy test imaginable –skin prick test says house dust, crab and pennicilin allergies, inhalation test says cotton flock (?), in office milk taste test, horrible reaction but blood test says NOTHING!!
When I asked about the variation of results he said different tests are better for different things and that allergies were complex. He told me that I was allergic to ALL of the things that had every come up positive on a test, ESPECIALLY MILK which I am to avoid COMPLETELY and on forms and such I’m to write all of thoes things on form with a note that says, “Body highly overreacts to slightest increase of anti-histamine level.”
Has anyone else had such a problem getting test results that matched or were conclusive?