hair test for allergies

Has anyone had one of these before, or got one for their child?

In your opinion do you think they work?

I had one done on my DD to find out what was triggering her eczema. TBH the report came back with 6 pages of stuff she was allergic to, infact the report said she was allergic to practically every food known to man!!! She would have starved if I had of cut out everything from her diet on the list!!

I then went and got testing through an allergy specialist and it came back that she was highly allergic to cats and thats all.

So for me it was a waste of money but I have heard of others having success with it

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm we had a hair test done for Clodagh and it came back as lactase only...and it's pretty much right lol. We saw a naturopath though who swung a crystal over her and deemed her allergic to everything and have also had skin prick tests. I dunno how accurate any of them are in under 2's lol

We just had one done on my boy, and its come back with intolerance's to a few things. I had it done as DS had eczema/rash on his face.
I'm now going to try and get a blood test done to see if that comes back with similar results. In regards to wheat/gluten.
So it will be interesting to see if those results correlate.
Also it said he had an intolerance to tomatoes, which is visible the moment he eats it-sauce etc, his face goes red and blotchy.
I think you have to open to the fact that it's a little bit 'out there'. And go from there. I wasn't happy with my drs opinion, of oh its just a bit of eczema here's some hydro-cortisone cream to use. (and 1% at that-which is not ok to use on the eye area!) That's not looking at the whole picture.

I have had it done for both my daughters and I am undecided as to how effective they are. DD1 was 2 at the time; we did it through a naturopath, and it confirmed some allergens that were known to us already, and others I suspected - so I don't think they're complete codswallap (our paediatrician's opinion!). However it didn't say soy and she gets a rash (and sometimes vomits) from soy. We found eliminating the foods was successful, however, at the same time we also followed the naturopath's advice such as a heavy dose of probiotics, slippery elm powder, no refined sugar etc.

With DD2 she was only a month or two old and I did it out of desperation after the RAST didn't pick anything up, and I wasn't having much luck with elimination diets (as I was breastfeeding). And I don't think that test was very accurate at all, although we are still in the early days with the solids.

So my advice would be that they can be a good starting point, but I would do one through a naturopath and wouldn't bother if it was for a young baby.

Whats muscle testing, sounds rather interesting? Does it help with getting rid of eczema? I would be interested in more information if you have any...