Akld Allergy Clinic

that wouild be good to know too Aimee, as our GP has guessed that all of Caitlin's issues could be down to a Wheat/Glutenm allergy. I'd like to get it checked for sure though.

How much are the appointments?

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I hope you're gonna pop in for a cuppa when you're in Auckland

We took her to a private allergy specialist. It cost a fortune (upwards of $600) for the initial consult and the follow up was a further $300 +. He basically did a skin prick test and told me what those meant (she had a reaction to peanut and egg but was safe with dairy and wheat) and sent us off for bloods. The follow up was basically him reading what the bloods meant off the sheet of paper and refering us to a dietician and perscribing an epipen. We were with him a total of about 10 minutes.

When we moved to Wellington we changed to another specialist down there- he was wonderful! He took a full medical history of both of us and our extended family. He was with us for over an hour and a half and explained so much to us- he was just wonderful, we got to ask all our questions and he was cheaper too. We are actually having her 3 year follow up with him again when we fly back in March as I dont want to go anywhere else.

If you want to know the place we went to in Auckland (if you either want to go to it or avoid it!) then just PM me.

I think we have struck it lucky with Erin health wise, she doesn't seem to have any allergy issues, even though Coeliac's Disease runs in my biological family and Addison's Diseas runs in Roland's family. I would definitely take her to get checked out Toni, esp. if her issues do come down to a wheat and / or gluten allergy.

I have no idea Aimee, haven't heard that much about him. Those "in the know" rank the top three paed allergists in Auckland as Dr Jan Sinclair, Dr Allan Liang and Dr Rohan Ameratunga (in no particular order). We saw Dr Liang when Maya was smaller but were referred to Dr Sinclair when she started having random hive outbreaks at about 20 mths or so, and because Jan runs the immunology clinic at Starship she is able to organise testing etc there fairly promptly. I've found her to be absolutely brilliant, she is great with the kids, very thorough and doesn't dismiss anything as irrelevant.

I can put some feelers out and see what others think of Dr Crump, but you could also check out the EBB allergies board and see what some of them think.

IMHO if you can get in to see Jan (and I know she has quite shocking waiting lists sometimes but you often get bumped up the list if she has cancellations) then I would.

OMG Dr Liang is still out there ??? LOL Sorry... I saw him when I first came to NZ and *everything* flared up - asthma, eczema, allergies, sinusitis... he was great I just thought he would be retired by now.