Remember my daughter that is lactose intolerant? She had an appointment with an allergist today to try to rule out allergies and to help us identify exactly what she can and can’t eat.
The allergist did a skin test on her arm. They pricked her with something that would make her itch, and then they pricked her with something that should be neutral and not have a reaction and the third prick was with milk.
If she was allergic, the milk prick would have a reaction.
The allergist told us it was 1 in a million odds of someone older than 6 getting a milk allergy.
She had a reaction to the milk prick AND to the prick that wasn’t suppose to react at all.
They redid the test.
Again, she had a reaction to both pricks.
They can’t say the prick to milk was positive since the neutral one reacted too. She had to get a blood draw. They will test her blood for a milk allergy, and we will be going back to the allergist for more extensive testing.
They think the skin reaction today is because she has very sensitive skin and not a true milk reaction. We’ll find out in a couple of weeks.
