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Article: Laboratory food allergy testing: evaluating the necessity for this diagnostic approach.
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Headaches, arthritis, joint pain, depression, fatigue, hypoglycemia, recurrent infections, mood swings, acne, eczema, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and attention deficit disorder (ADD). These are just some of the health problems many individuals and some doctors attribute to hidden food allergies or food hypersensitivity. However, with food allergy being the most commonly self-diagnosed health problem in the United States, the search for a standardized way of approaching the question of allergy tests is underway. (1)
"Food allergy is usually over-diagnosed by the public, often under diagnosed by physicians, and may be misdiagnosed by allergists," says Sami ...