Allergy - Beef Test

If you feel nauseated, develop a rash, get stuffy nose after eating meat you are most likeable to have a meat allergy. Any mammal meat, beef, lamb, pork, goat, whale or seal can cause allergic reactions to a human body. Even a small bite can develop an allergy to red meat including beef and pork. It is an uncommon thing to happen but can happen to anyone whose body is allergic to mammal meats. This allergy can develop at any point in time in life. It is possible that you may be allergic to a different kind of animal meets as well as poultry meat such as chicken, turkey and duck and vice versa also.

The skin prick method is used to determine allergic reaction towards beef. This is a traditional allergy test which may require inserting possible triggers into the skin using the needle pricks. If you are allergic to the substance the body is forced to suffer through the reaction to the allergens. Nowadays pain-free blood tests are available to determine the allergen status of different types of meat and other foods without the irritation of the traditional skin prick test. This test involves no painful pricks gives the result within 1 or 2 days and requires no fasting.

The allergist uses these tests to make a diagnosis with a detailed study of your medical and family history along with the results of the two tests. It will give the allergist confirmed the diagnosis of your allergy. This test helps you to know the allergens and avoid eating it so that you are able to live an allergy-free life.

Before you are prescribed this test and allergy specialist will go through your medical history and symptoms by asking you questions like- What and how much you ate, how long did it take for the allergy to develop, what symptoms you experienced and how long they lasted? After going through all the diagnosis of the patient the allergist may prescribe you a blood test or a skin test. This indicates when the food-specific immunoglobulin antibodies are present in your body. Skin test gives results in about 20 minutes. The skin on your arm or back is pricked by a sterile needle that contains a tiny amount of food allergen. The test may not be painful but can be uncomfortable. The blood test measures the iGe amount to the specific food being tested the results are available in about 2 weeks and is reported in a numerical value.