{"id":40290,"date":"2025-10-09T01:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/?post_type=procedure&#038;p=40290"},"modified":"2025-10-09T01:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:31:14","slug":"food-allergies","status":"publish","type":"procedure","link":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/procedure\/food-allergies\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Allergies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What is Food Allergy testing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food allergy is an <strong>immune (IgE\u2011mediated)<\/strong> reaction to foods such as milk, egg, peanut, tree nuts, soy, wheat, fish, and shellfish. Symptoms can include hives, swelling, vomiting, wheeze, throat tightness, or <strong>anaphylaxis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What to expect during testing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Detailed history of foods, amounts, timing, and symptoms (with photos if available).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Skin prick<\/strong> and\/or <strong>specific IgE blood tests<\/strong> to suspected foods.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When results are unclear, a supervised <strong>oral food challenge<\/strong> with small, increasing doses is the <strong>gold standard<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Action plan and <strong>epinephrine auto\u2011injector<\/strong> training if needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40296,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"specialty":[1286],"class_list":["post-40290","procedure","type-procedure","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","specialty-allergist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/procedure\/40290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/procedure"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/procedure"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"specialty","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specialty?post=40290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}