Recommend nut allergist in Melbourne

Can someone recommend me a nut allergist specialist. My daughter needs to reevaluated and I’m not happy with the last dr she saw.

Happy to go/pay private.

Btw if this in the wrong section please move.

What was wrong with your last doctor? I’ve seen 2 different ones for DS and they both did the same prick test, and the results were the same. The advice was the same, recommended medication was the same. Both gave me photocopies of info on which nuts to avoid.

One Dr ran really late, that’s the only reason why I preferred the other one. Otherwise, as far as nut allergies go, there doesn’t seem much to it. Our GP does the yearly allergy form for school.

(Just my experience. And DS isnt anaphylactic)

I’ll PM you the better one though.

Our situation wasn’t urgent, so we were happy to go on the RCH waiting list. Took a couple of years, but when we finally got an appointment we were really impressed. Far more thorough than the private allergists we saw previously.

What was wrong with your last doctor? I’ve

Thanks for your pm.

Just wondering for those that their kids have allergies can I ask what allergies they have and the plan your specialist recommended?

suppose I’ll go first: DD severe nut allergy, broke out with hives all over her body, Angioedema (it’s like lumps under her skin), hypertension - her blood pressure plummeted and she went sort of unconscious & floppy. Her face swelled up (eyes slit shut, lips all swollen).

She was in ER and responded to drugs - didn’t need epi at the time but we were told to see a specialist to organise an action plan.

One dr advised to always carry an epi pen and subsequently wrote an action plan supporting that. another dr we saw a few years later said epi was unnecessary. So I’m curious as to what other people’s experiences are.

OP I would want to carry an epipen, and DD has been prescribed one for a less extreme reaction than your DD’s. And we needed it years later when DD had a more extreme reaction to a different food (she’d had a few lesser reactions in between).

As I said, my son isn’t anaphylactic, but with that sort of a reaction? I’d always carry an epipen, 2 probably. It’s life or death. May never need it, but it only takes one bit of nut hidden in something to get a reaction, and you never know how long the ambulance will take.