{"id":36611,"date":"2026-09-18T13:32:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=36611"},"modified":"2026-09-23T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:34:32","slug":"food-allergy-blood-tests-keep-improving-but-none-can-replace-oral-food-challenge-medscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/food-allergy-blood-tests-keep-improving-but-none-can-replace-oral-food-challenge-medscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Allergy Blood Tests Keep Improving, but None Can Replace Oral Food Challenge\u2014<em>Medscape<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/MeQ3aMjs2up?e=abffd9bbab&amp;c2id=1baf71afc5ce7766c5a769956f74ceec&amp;m=b-g0yaiAskWGTq43CVnzGg1cytvB4Ltq9V3y4r0vFOi-h0bw9rHg3dK3Wnwn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Marcus Shaker, a pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essor <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> pediatrics and medicine, is quoted on the limits <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> current food allergy blood tests and the importance <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> considering a patient's pretest probability <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> allergy. \"Just because you have a food-specific IgE doesn't mean it causes disease,\" Shaker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/MeQ3aMjs2up?e=abffd9bbab&amp;c2id=1baf71afc5ce7766c5a769956f74ceec&amp;m=b-g0yaiAskWGTq43CVnzGg1cytvB4Ltq9V3y4r0vFOi-h0bw9rHg3dK3Wnwn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Marcus Shaker, a pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essor <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> pediatrics and medicine, is quoted on the limits <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> current food allergy blood tests and the importance <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> considering a patient&#8217;s pretest probability <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> allergy. &#8220;Just because you have a food-specific IgE doesn&#8217;t mean it causes disease,&#8221; Shaker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-9wv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36612,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36611\/revisions\/36612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}