Food Allergy Doctor

I suspect that you may want him to be checked for food intollerances as well as allergies. Most M.D.s that I have seen won't do food intollerance testing. You may want to try a naturopath or homeopathic doctor instead. Or you can do your own little self testing. It's called the elimination diet (at least, I think that's what it is called).

What you do is eliminate the suspect food or ingredient from your diet for 3 weeks and then reintroduce it slowly into your diet. If you have an intolerance with that particular food, you may feel kind of crappy the first few days after you have stopped eating it because you are detoxing, and then you will feel fantastic. However, once you reintroduce the food, your symptoms reappear with a vengence, then you know that you need to stay away from that particular food/ingredient for a while longer. If eliminating and then reintroducing that food/ingredient causes you no problems whatsoever, then you know that you do not have an intollerance to it.

Hope this helps.

Pramod Kelkar of Allergy and Asthma Care would be great. He is trained in a lot of "alternative" medicine areas, and he knows a ton about food and nutrition and some of that cutting edge research you talk about. But he's also an MD so he has that whole body of knowledge as well.

It seems to me that all of the cutting edge research goes to peanut allergies.

We once went to an allergist for my daughter who read up on all of the research being done is Israel and else where. He could quote the studies and spout them off. Quite frankly I got tired of hearing about it.

He was also big on food challenges and using the Epi-pen with the slightest reaction.

Needless to say I have switched allergists who prescribes a more conservative route of avoidance and elimination. It is my hope that she will one day outgrow her allergies but it looks like it will take many many years. If I can get her through this time without using the Epi-pen then I will consider it a success.

Good luck on your journey and I hope you find what you are looking for.

You can find allergists, who are medical doctors, listed in the yellow pages. You can also call the state Medical Association and ask for a referral.

Have you talked with your son's allergist about how you feel? I suggest that you do that first so that you can understand why he's treating your son the way he is treating him. There may not be a more aggressive treatment available. Or your son's condition may be such that other treatments would be inappropriate.

Once you understand why your son's allergist is treating him in this manner you can be better able to find another one that will treat him differently.

I have many food allergies and there aren't any treatment options available, except abstaining from eating the food and taking an antihistamine when one has a reaction.