I am trying to clear out my Google Reader, and I ran across this woman's story of her ELISA testing. What do you think of what she says and what her naturopath said?
She goes on to say that she eventually healed with out removing any of the foods that were on her "high" list.If you have Celiac disease, the damage done to the intestines leaves you with intestinal permiability. This means you need to be aware that other foods are probably causing you problems and will continue to do so until you heal the intestinal tract. I would argue that most people with gastrointestinal symptoms have some degree of leaky gut syndrome. A food allergy test in my opinion is useless except to tell you that you do in fact have leaky gut. It would probably tell you that you’re allergic to everything you’re eating.
Most Naturopaths will tell you to avoid all foods you test high or moderate for, seeing the test as a final result. Do this and take the blood test again in a few months, and I wouldn’t be surprised if your results are different, showing a higher reaction to the new foods you are eating. My naturopath reacted a little differently. She didn’t tell me to cut anything out, but did introduce me to the concept of rotation diet. Foods that I was reacting to at a high level I would not eat every single day, but once every few days. That made sense to me and helped me get a bit more variety in my diet. Especially with meats which at the time I was just eating beef, chicken and pork. I started eating lamb, duck, turkey and various game meats. I also started trying to get seafood once a week. I had a hard time with vegetables and was scared of raw fruit at the time, so I didn’t manage to get much variety there but I did rotate through the ones I was eating.
Reading this made me realize that I have been wondering about this myself because of my own allergic peculiarities. Sometimes I am allergic to some foods (like watermelon, cherries, dates, almonds, others) and sometimes not. When I was a teenager, I was allergic to apples for a few years, then decided that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" and started eating them anyway. Within a short time I was no longer allergic to them, and have not been allergic to them since.
Even in my own health, though, there seems to be two sides to this. I became desensitized to apples by eating more of them, but I became allergic to cats and dogs after living with them for many years.
But getting back to the food thing... what do you think of Kat's experience? Can rotating foods (as many on the forum do) be perhaps the first, possibly best route to remission?