Diagnosing allergies: when to test, when to refer.
Recent progress in allergy diagnosis has produced a bewildering variety of tests. These guidelines will help you sort out which ones you can perform and which are best left to a specialist.
Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA.
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D002648:Child; D003955:Diagnostic Tests, Routine; D004338:Drug Combinations; D005512:Food Hypersensitivity / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D006967:Hypersensitivity / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008458:Measles Vaccine / Q000009:adverse effects; D022542:Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine; D009108:Mumps Vaccine / Q000009:adverse effects; D011852:Radioallergosorbent Test; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012411:Rubella Vaccine / Q000009:adverse effects; D012882:Skin Tests