Allergy, Food for 44 Panels
This comprehensive panel tests for IgE-mediated allergies to 44 common food items, including dairy, nuts, seafood, grains, and fruits. It helps identify foods that may trigger allergic reactions.
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What the Allergy, Food for 44 Panels test tells you
A food allergy panel measures immunoglobulin E — IgE — antibodies in a blood sample and reports them separately for each food included. IgE is the antibody class behind immediate allergic reactions: the itching, hives, swelling of the lips or throat, sudden vomiting or wheezing that appear within minutes to a few hours of eating. Because the measurement happens in the laboratory rather than on the skin, the test can be done when eczema covers the forearms, when antihistamines cannot be stopped, or when a previous reaction was severe enough that skin testing feels unwise.
The forty-four foods on this panel cover the groups responsible for most reactions: cow's milk and egg, peanut and tree nuts, wheat and soy, fish and shellfish, along with a spread of fruits, vegetables, seeds and spices. Reporting each allergen separately lets your doctor read a pattern rather than a single yes or no. Related foods often rise together, and that parallel rise is itself a useful clue about which protein family your immune system has learned to recognise.
A detectable antibody means your immune system has responded to that food; the medical word for it is sensitisation. Sensitisation and allergy are not the same thing, and many people carry antibodies to foods they eat comfortably every week. What turns a laboratory finding into a diagnosis is the story that goes with it — what you ate, how quickly you reacted, what the reaction looked like, and whether it has happened more than once. In unclear cases your doctor may add a supervised feeding challenge before advising you to avoid anything long term.
Recommended if you experience hives, swelling, digestive distress, or anaphylaxis after eating, and need to identify the specific trigger foods.
When several foods were eaten together, testing each allergen separately helps your doctor shortlist the likely culprit instead of guessing from the menu.
A blood sample can be taken while your skin is inflamed or while you are still on antihistamines, both of which interfere with skin prick testing.
Clear results give your doctor grounds to return a wrongly excluded food to the diet, which matters most for children and for staple foods.
Knowing which foods you react to helps your doctor decide whether you should carry adrenaline and what a written action plan should say.
Reasons your doctor may request the Allergy, Food for 44 Panels test
Your doctor may order this test for any of the reasons below. Some are routine checks, others follow specific symptoms or an earlier result.
Reactions after eating
Hives, lip or eyelid swelling, or sudden vomiting appearing soon after a meal.
Itching or tingling in the mouth when eating fresh fruit, nuts or raw vegetables.
Severe reactions & eczema
A previous severe allergic reaction whose trigger was never identified.
A child with troublesome eczema whose parents suspect a food is involved.
Before changing your diet
Before removing a nutritionally important food group such as milk, wheat or fish from a long-term diet.
No fasting window — pick any slot that suits you, online or on WhatsApp.
A DHA-licensed nurse collects your sample at home or in the office — free home collection.
A physician-reviewed, easy-to-read report lands securely by WhatsApp and email.
A panel testing reactions to 44 foods.
Allergy, Food for 44 Panels
A panel testing reactions to 44 foods.
Each food is graded individually (e.g. from negative to strongly positive). Your report lists the grade for every item in the panel.
This test is reported descriptively rather than on a numeric scale — each finding below explains what your report may say.
This information is for general education only and is not medical advice. Reference ranges can vary by laboratory, age, sex, and individual factors. Always consult your physician or doctor to interpret your results.
What a higher result can point to
- A genuine food allergy, where the antibodies and the symptom history point to the same food.
- Silent sensitisation, meaning antibodies to a food that is eaten regularly without any reaction.
- Cross-reactivity between botanically related foods, such as several tree nuts or several legumes rising together.
- Pollen–food cross-reactivity, where antibodies raised against pollen also bind similar proteins in raw fruit and vegetables.
- A strongly atopic background, with eczema, asthma or hay fever lifting antibody production broadly.
These are possibilities, not diagnoses. A single value outside the reference range is interpreted alongside your symptoms, history and other tests — your doctor decides what it means for you.
What this test cannot tell you
- A positive result shows sensitisation, not proof that eating the food will cause symptoms.
- The panel is fixed, so a trigger that is not among the foods tested will be missed entirely.
- Reactions that do not involve IgE — coeliac disease, lactose intolerance, food protein-induced enterocolitis — are invisible to this test and need separate investigation.
- The strength of a result does not forecast how severe a future reaction would be.
Risks of the blood draw
- Mild bruising or brief soreness where the needle went in.
- Occasional lightheadedness, which settles after a few minutes of rest.
- Bleeding or infection at the site, which is rare with sterile single-use equipment.
- 1The panel measures IgE, the antibody class responsible for fast allergic reactions.
- 2Antibodies to a food mean sensitisation; a diagnosis also needs your symptom history.
- 3Related foods often appear together because their proteins resemble one another.
- 4A negative panel does not rule out non-allergic reactions to food.
- 5Results are meant to be read with your doctor rather than used to build an elimination diet alone.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Talk to our team→No. Antihistamines blunt the skin response that a prick test depends on, but they do not change the amount of specific IgE circulating in your blood, so the sample can be taken while you keep taking them.
That pattern is common and is called sensitisation without allergy. Your immune system has made antibodies to a protein in that food, but they are not driving a clinical reaction. Your doctor will usually weigh your symptom history more heavily than an antibody on its own.
Not reliably. A higher antibody level makes a genuine allergy more likely, but it does not predict the severity of the next reaction. Someone with a modest result can still react badly, and the reverse happens too.
Many nut and legume proteins are structurally similar, so antibodies raised against one can bind its relatives in the laboratory. Your doctor may check tolerance to the others individually rather than removing the whole group.
This comprehensive panel tests for IgE-mediated allergies to 44 common food items, including dairy, nuts, seafood, grains, and fruits. It helps identify foods that may trigger allergic reactions.
Recommended if you experience hives, swelling, digestive distress, or anaphylaxis after eating, and need to identify the specific trigger foods.
No, fasting is not required for the Food Allergy Panel (44 Allergens) test, so you can eat and drink normally beforehand.
The Food Allergy Panel (44 Allergens) test uses a blood sample, collected quickly by our DHA-licensed phlebotomist with minimal discomfort.
Results for the Food Allergy Panel (44 Allergens) test are typically ready within 2 to 3 days. You will receive a secure digital report, and your Smart Report highlights anything outside the normal range.
The Food Allergy Panel (44 Allergens) test is AED 520, which includes free home sample collection and a physician-reviewed report. You can also build a custom panel and pay only for the markers you choose.
Yes. A DHA-licensed phlebotomist can collect your sample at home or the office anywhere in Dubai at no extra cost, 7 days a week. See how it works.
It is commonly chosen by adults & children. If you are not sure it is right for you, our care team is happy to advise.
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Yes. It is processed at our EIAC-accredited laboratory (ISO 15189:2022) under DHA license 0046381 and verified by board-certified pathologists.
Every report includes reference ranges and plain-language notes. If you have questions, our care team can arrange a clinician review — just get in touch.
Absolutely. Add it to a curated health package or bundle it with any of our 160+ biomarkers, often from a single sample in one visit.