Why Do Allergy Skin Prick and Blood Testing Results Sometimes Differ?

Image by Wolfgang Ihloff in Wikipedia For inhalant allergies, there is a high agreement (~80-90%) in results found between skin prick and blood testing . However, occasionally the results may differ quite significantly... usually in these situations, the skin prick test comes back positive for something whereas the blood test comes back negative or normal. It's also possible that both skin prick and blood testing may come back normal even if a patient is truly allergic. Why? Bef…

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Kim Kardashian Gets Allergy Testing

Celebrity Kim Kardashian of Keeping up with the Kardashians reality TV show underwent allergy testing with Dr. Mirmelli. Allergy testing was accomplished via skin prick (our office performs allergy testing by blood draw instead called immunocap ). She apparently was allergic to her pet cat... Kim apparently decided to let her pet cat Mercy go... a decision in contrast to what most cat-allergic people do. Watch the video .

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