Should I see a doctor?
Can you answer yes to any of the following
questions?
1) Do you suffer from a runny nose, itchy
and watery eyes, stuffy nose or postnasal drip?
2) Do you sneeze and cough in the morning?
3) Do you have difficulty breathing through
your nose?
4) Do you experience sore throat or hoarseness?
Sounds like a cold, doesn't it? That's
why diagnosing allergy is so difficult. Allergy can look just
like all the other things that cause sniffles and sneezes.
It's important to find out for sure. Once
you know, you and your doctor can make the right decisions for
your treatment.
Now there's a remarkable new test that
your doctor can use to tell if you have allergies and just what
you're allergic to - the ImmunoCAP® Allergy
blood test. Because this test is new to primary care, your doctor
may not be aware of it. That's why we've created the Ask
Your Doctor Printout in a PDF format. You will
need the Adobe
Acrobat Reader to view and print this document.
Take it with you on your next office visit. It
tells your doctor how to get information to make
the latest allergy testing technology available
to you.
See Step-by-Step - From Symptoms to Treatment,
an upper respiratory disease algorithm created
to illustrate the common steps in diagnosing
and treating allergy-like symptoms. |