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Does treatment with antidepressants, antipsychotics, or benzodiazepines hamper allergy skin testing?

Henrik Fomsgaard KjaerCharlotte Gotthard MortzCarsten Bindslev-Jensen
Published in: Clinical and translational allergy (2021)
Skin testing has little meaning in patients treated with mirtazapine or quetiapine. Treatment with SSRI, SNRI, and BD does not seem to affect the results of SPTs, whereas skin tests in patients treated with TCA should be interpreted with caution.
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