Arrival time
Skin testing is typically done during a regular allergy visit at the provider’s discretion. You will need to arrive 10 to 15 minutes before your scheduled appointment.
Special testing can be ordered by your child’s provider during either an initial or subsequent visit. You will need to come back a on a separate day for these tests. The day of the test you will need to arrive 30 to 45 minutes before the time of your child’s test. This gives you enough time to park and register at the front desk on Fegan 6. If you’re late, your appointment may be cancelled.
Diet
For all allergy tests except food challenges, your child may eat and drink as usual before the test.
Medicine
You may need to stop some of your child’s medications before these allergy tests. Talk with your child’s allergist if you have questions. Continue to give daily controller asthma medications (examples: Singulair, Flovent, Pulmicort) as usual before the test.
One week before all allergy tests, stop giving antihistamines, as these can affect test results. Antihistamines to stop giving your child include:
- Actifed
- Allegra (fexofenadine)
- Atarax (hydroxyzine)
- Claritin (loratadine)
- Cyproheptadine
- Dimetapp
- Pediacare
- Tavist
- Triaminic
- Xyzal (levocetirizine)
- Zyrtec (cetirizine)
You may continue to give Benadryl (diphenhydramine) up to three days before the visit.
