Allergies Profile - Food at Home in Dubai
Comprehensive food allergy blood test. Test IgE reactions to 44 common foods at home. Identify triggers causing reactions. Results in 4-5 days at AED 459.
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ISO 15189Explore the included tests and biomarkers
Select a profile or test to see its included components and a plain-language explanation. Related measurements are grouped together for easier reading.
These assay markers help identify IgE reactivity to cross-reactive carbohydrate determinants, or CCDs. Such reactivity can contribute to positive results across plant or insect extracts without corresponding clinical allergy. These markers support interpretation of the allergy panel; they are not a list of additional foods to avoid.
This part of the allergy blood panel measures specific IgE responses to the listed nuts, seeds and legumes. A positive result indicates sensitisation and must be compared with symptoms after exposure; it does not establish a food allergy by itself. Combined extract names are retained as supplied and do not imply additional separate tests.
This part of the allergy blood panel measures specific IgE responses to the listed cereals and grain extracts. A positive result indicates sensitisation and must be compared with symptoms after exposure; it does not establish a food allergy by itself. Combined extract names are retained as supplied and do not imply additional separate tests.
This part of the allergy blood panel measures specific IgE responses to the listed vegetables and other food extracts. A positive result indicates sensitisation and must be compared with symptoms after exposure; it does not establish a food allergy by itself. Combined extract names are retained as supplied and do not imply additional separate tests.
This part of the allergy blood panel measures specific IgE responses to the listed milk, dairy and egg allergens. A positive result indicates sensitisation and must be compared with symptoms after exposure; it does not establish a food allergy by itself. Combined extract names are retained as supplied and do not imply additional separate tests.
This part of the allergy blood panel measures specific IgE responses to the listed meat and poultry allergens. A positive result indicates sensitisation and must be compared with symptoms after exposure; it does not establish a food allergy by itself. Combined extract names are retained as supplied and do not imply additional separate tests.
This part of the allergy blood panel measures specific IgE responses to the listed fish and shellfish allergens. A positive result indicates sensitisation and must be compared with symptoms after exposure; it does not establish a food allergy by itself. Combined extract names are retained as supplied and do not imply additional separate tests.
This part of the allergy blood panel measures specific IgE responses to the listed fruit allergens. A positive result indicates sensitisation and must be compared with symptoms after exposure; it does not establish a food allergy by itself. Combined extract names are retained as supplied and do not imply additional separate tests.
A complete picture of your health, without a clinic queue
A DHA-licensed phlebotomist collects your sample at home, our ISO 15189-accredited laboratory processes it, and a doctor reviews the results with you over a complimentary consultation — so you finish with a plan, not just a PDF.
Who it's for
- Allergy Testing
- Food Allergy
- Digestive Health
- Nutrition Planning
How it works
- 1Book & add to cartChoose a date and time — same-day appointments across Dubai.
- 2Home sample collectionA DHA-licensed phlebotomist collects your sample at home in one visit.
- 3Lab processingYour sample is analysed at our ISO 15189-accredited laboratory.
- 4Results + consultationFast results, then a free doctor consultation to explain them.
What your results reveal
Read together by a doctor, your biomarkers build a connected picture of your health.
Food Allergy
Anaphylaxis Risk
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How to prepare
No fasting is required. Critically, keep eating your normal diet before the sample — removing suspect foods first changes what the panel can detect and is the most common way a useful test is wasted. Antihistamines do not affect a blood allergy test, so continue them. Tell us about oral steroids, which can influence results.
Who should take this test
For people with reactions they cannot pin down — hives, swelling, stomach upset or breathing symptoms after eating. A blood panel is particularly useful for young children, for anyone with skin conditions that make skin-prick testing unreliable, and where stopping antihistamines is not practical. A positive result shows sensitisation, and it is the pattern with your actual symptoms that establishes a true allergy.
Everything you need to know about the Allergies Profile - Food
Comprehensive food allergy blood test. Test IgE reactions to 44 common foods at home. Identify triggers causing reactions. Results in 4-5 days at AED 459.
The most useful thing to understand before booking a food allergy panel is what its results are not. A positive marker is not an instruction to stop eating something. It is one piece of evidence, and it only means anything once it is read against what actually happens when you eat that food.
What a specific IgE result actually means
This panel measures specific IgE — the antibody your immune system makes against a particular food protein. A raised level shows that your immune system has been sensitised to that protein. It does not show that you will react when you eat it.
Sensitisation without symptoms is common. People carry detectable IgE to foods they eat regularly and tolerate perfectly well, and a report can list several of them. Treating that report as a shopping list of things to cut out is the most common way this test gets misused, and it restricts a diet that was never causing a problem.
Why your symptom history matters more than the report
A specific IgE result is interpreted against your history, not in place of it. The questions that decide whether a positive marker is clinically relevant are simple: what did you eat, how long afterwards did something happen, what happened, and has it happened more than once with the same food?
Write that down before your consultation. A positive result for something you have eaten uneventfully all your life means something very different from the same result for the food you ate an hour before your lips swelled. A clear account genuinely changes the conclusion.
Why related foods often come back positive together
Allergy antibodies recognise protein structures rather than whole foods, and related foods share structures. That is why a panel can flag several members of the same family when only one of them has ever caused you trouble.
This is called cross-reactivity, and it is a normal feature of the results rather than a fault in them. It is another reason the report needs interpreting: a cluster of positives can look alarming on paper while representing one real allergy and the shared proteins around it.
What this panel does not measure
Specific IgE testing addresses one mechanism only — the rapid, antibody-driven reaction that produces hives, swelling, vomiting, wheeze or, at its most serious, anaphylaxis. Conditions that involve food but work through other mechanisms are invisible to it.
Lactose intolerance, coeliac disease and the food-related patterns seen in irritable bowel syndrome are different problems with different biology, and each needs its own investigation. If your symptoms are bloating and disturbed bowels hours after eating rather than a fast reaction, an IgE panel is unlikely to be the test that explains them, and the doctor reviewing your results will say so.
What happens after the results
Results take four to five days and arrive with a doctor consultation rather than as a document to decipher alone. That conversation covers which positives fit your history, which do not, and what to do about the ones that do.
Where a genuine allergy is confirmed, the next steps are practical: how to read labels, what to ask when eating out, what to carry, and what to do if a reaction happens. Where the history is severe or the picture unclear, referral to an allergy specialist is the right move, and supervised assessment rather than self-directed elimination is how it should be settled. Removing major foods on the strength of a report alone carries real risks of its own, particularly for children.
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Written for Vesta Care patients in Dubai, using the laboratory's own panel definitions and reference ranges. Content is reviewed for clinical accuracy before publication and updated whenever the panel composition changes.
Independently reviewed for clinical accuracy: the biomarkers listed, what each one measures, the conditions it helps identify and the preparation advice were checked against current laboratory practice. Reviewing clinician is always different from the author, and no page is published without this second read.
This article has been reviewed for medical accuracy. It is intended for informational purposes only and does not substitute professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
