A young client has developed a possible food allergy. What should the nurse anticipate being prescribed for this client?

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Prior to developing a treatment plan, the healthcare provider would ask the child or parent to keep a food diary, detailing every food product ingested and the amount. There are other alternative food allergy testing methods such as provocation-neutralization testing and cytotoxic testing, but these are not recognized by leading professional allergy organizations as reliable tools for identifying a food allergy. The oral food challenge test is not identified as a testing method to identify a food allergy.

A Young Client Has Developed a Possible Food Allergy