Food Allergy Skin Prick Testing

Skin prick tests are carried out at the volar side of the forearm. In a first step the skin is marked with a pen, as shown on the right. Then one drop of each solution to be tested is put on the skin beside the respective mark. Then the point of a prick needle or prick lancet is pushed through the drop and held against the skin for roughly a second. The shouldered skin prick test lancet just penetrates the skin allowing through a very small quantity of the solution.

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