After several doctors, diets and protocols, I recently visited a highly regarded immunologist (in addition to LC, I have celiac, hashi's thyroid and some other immune issues). His recommended treatment includes starting with the yeast elimination diet (spent 30 weeks on antibiotics last year). Unfortunately, between that diet and my various allergy/response tests it seems that there's nothing left to eat. Anybody run into this? If so, how do you approach which foods to eliminate first?
EnteroLab: (Panel A&C)
mean value of all 11 foods - 19 units
gliadin - 235 units
casein - 35 units
egg - 21 units
soy - 51 units
most immunologic reactivity - oat, corn, walnut, rice
intermediate reactivity - chicken, white potato, cashew, tuna
least reactivity - pork, beef, almond
Grains:
most reactivity - oat
intermediate - corn
least - rice
Meats:
most - chicken
next most - tuna
intermediate - pork
least - beef
Nuts:
most - walnut
intermediate - cashew
least - almond
Intradermal testing (done at immunologist office)
most reactive to rice and fish (mix)
IgG blood test:
high (+3) - almond, chocolate
moderate (+2) - apple, peanut, soy
low (+1) - beef, blueberry, buckwheat, chicken, corn, egg yolk, kidney bean, lamb, lentil, lima bean, oat, papaya, pea, peach, pinto bean, plum, pork, string bean, turkey, wheat, yeast
Very Low (VL) - alfalfa, apricot, asparagus, banana, cabbage, casein, cheddar cheese, cod, corn gluten, cottage cheese, cow's milk, crab, cranberry, cucumber, egg white, garlic, gluten, goat's milk, grape, grapefruit, green pepper, lactalbumin, lemon, mushroom, onion, orange, oyster, pear, pecan, pineapple, sweet potato, white potato, raspberry, rice, rye, salmon, sesame, tomato, trout, tuna, walnut, yogurt
No reaction (0) - avocado, beet, brocolli, cane sugar, carrot, celery, clam, coffee, lettuce, lobster, olive, red snapper, sardine, shrimp, sole, spinach, strawberry, sunflower seed, zucchini
Thanks to all on this forum for your wealth of info and knowledge. It's helped me a lot.
Making sense of EnteroLab, IgG, intradermal results
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Hi Marie,
Looking at your aggregated test results, IMO, these are the foods that you should be able to safely eat:
lamb, bison, venison, rabbit, ostrich, beef, turkey, salmon, trout, shrimp, lobster, crab, clam, red snapper, sardines, sole, avocado, sweet potatoes, cauliflower, beet, broccoli, carrot, olive, spinach, strawberry, sunflower seed, zucchini, asparagus, buckwheat, banana, cabbage, cranberry, cucumber, raspberry, coffee, almond, and possibly quinoa, tea, rice, celery, and tapioca. Cane sugar appears to be safe, but I wouldn't overdo it, since most of us have to severely limit sugar while we're recovering.
While it's certainly possible that you may have to weed out a few of those, after testing, it's still a pretty broad selection. If you also need to avoid foods that cause histamine problems, then the list will look more like this:
lamb, bison, venison, rabbit, ostrich, beef, turkey, sweet potatoes, cauliflower, beet, broccoli, carrot, olive, sunflower seed, zucchini, asparagus, buckwheat, cabbage, cranberry, cucumber, coffee, almond, and possibly quinoa, tea, rice, celery, and tapioca.
Be careful with buckwheat, because only certain brands are free of gluten cross-contamination. Select kosher brands.
If I've overlooked something here, hopefully someone else will spot my oversight and point it out.
Tex
Looking at your aggregated test results, IMO, these are the foods that you should be able to safely eat:
lamb, bison, venison, rabbit, ostrich, beef, turkey, salmon, trout, shrimp, lobster, crab, clam, red snapper, sardines, sole, avocado, sweet potatoes, cauliflower, beet, broccoli, carrot, olive, spinach, strawberry, sunflower seed, zucchini, asparagus, buckwheat, banana, cabbage, cranberry, cucumber, raspberry, coffee, almond, and possibly quinoa, tea, rice, celery, and tapioca. Cane sugar appears to be safe, but I wouldn't overdo it, since most of us have to severely limit sugar while we're recovering.
While it's certainly possible that you may have to weed out a few of those, after testing, it's still a pretty broad selection. If you also need to avoid foods that cause histamine problems, then the list will look more like this:
lamb, bison, venison, rabbit, ostrich, beef, turkey, sweet potatoes, cauliflower, beet, broccoli, carrot, olive, sunflower seed, zucchini, asparagus, buckwheat, cabbage, cranberry, cucumber, coffee, almond, and possibly quinoa, tea, rice, celery, and tapioca.
Be careful with buckwheat, because only certain brands are free of gluten cross-contamination. Select kosher brands.
If I've overlooked something here, hopefully someone else will spot my oversight and point it out.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
