The Allergy Clinic can test children for an allergic reaction to cat, rye grass, cows milk, egg, house dust mite, southern grasses, moulds and peanut.

1. Visiting the clinic
2. Testing
3. Assessment

Visiting the clinic

You will need to contact the clinic to make an appointment for your first visit.

Before coming to see us,  you will be sent:

• an appointment letter
• map
• parking voucher
• questionnaire
• possibly sample collection tubes.

Please park in the yellow marked bays outside the front of the clinic. Unfortunately parking is limited, so if no parking is available you will have to park in one of the nearby streets. 

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Testing

Your visit to the clinic will involve:

• Application of emla cream to the child's inner arms. This needs to be on for 30 minutes.
• A skin prick test will then be performed on one arm. A drop of allergen is applied to the skin and lightly scratched with a sterile needle.

If the child is allergic a small welt will appear quickly, looking similar to a mosquito bite.

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Assessment

The skin prick test will be followed up by an examination from Professor Susan Prescott, our Paediatric Immunologist.

She will discuss the results and possible strategies for treatment of any allergies. Your child will then be measured for height, weight and head circumference. If possible a small sample of blood (5-10ml) will then be collected from the vein in your child's arm. 

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