Please read the information contained within your appointment letter and accompanying information sheet.
It is important that you contact us with appointment changes or cancellations with as much notice as possible. We are under extreme pressure for appointments and to provide timely reviews, we need to utilise them as best we can.
When you attend your appointment, please bring:
• Your appointment letter
• A list of your medication including how much you take and how often
• Glasses or hearing aids if used
• Your up to date mobile number and email address
Prior to your allergy appointment, please stop antihistamines for 48 hours. If you feel you are unable to manage without them, please telephone the unit on 0114 2266963.
We have certain allergens available for skin prick testing, but we cannot provide all potential allergens. Please see the section on skin prick testing for a list of the allergens available. If you have had a problem with a food which is not on our list for testing, you can bring up to 5 food items with you to your appointment as it may be possible to test for this. Please ensure you do not handle the food and ask another person to wrap it for you.
If you have had allergic symptoms on exposure to a particular drug recently and you still have the drug at home, please bring the medication with you as it may be possible to use this for testing. If you no longer have the drug, we will order this for testing if this is necessary.
