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Really wonderful news for you. Very happy you have so few intolerances.
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Yay! I'm am literally smiling from ear to ear for you. I'm hoping one day to try a little cheese ( since I can't be tested), but in the mean time, I am really happy that you can indulge. :)

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Bonsoir y'all,


Here are the results for those of you who want to see the report and those who are just curious to see how an enterolab report looks like:

A + C) Comprehensive Gluten/Antigenic Food Sensitivity Stool Panel
(Combines Panels A and C at a discounted price)
Mean Value 11 Antigenic Foods 5 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Fecal Anti-gliadin IgA 19 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Fecal Anti-casein (cow’s milk) IgA 7 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Fecal Anti-ovalbumin (chicken egg) IgA 5 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Fecal Anti-soy IgA 15 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Interpretation of Mean Value 11 Antigenic Foods: A mean value of 5 Units indicates that overall, on average, your food sensitivity reactions are mild. However, there was some detectable evidence of immunologic sensitivity to one or more of these antigenic foods.

Many foods besides gluten, cow’s milk, eggs, and soy are antigenic in their own right; the main classes of which include other grains, meats, nuts, and nightshades (potatoes being the primary food eaten from this latter class). Minimizing exposure to antigenic foods is an important component of an anti-inflammatory lifestyle to optimize immune system health. This is especially important for those with chronic abdominal symptoms and/or chronic immune/autoimmune syndromes, or for those who want to prevent them.

For immunologic food sensitivity testing, the actual numeric value (in Units) for any given test or for the overall average of a group of foods is important mainly for determining: 1) if the immune reaction is present or absent, and 2) in relative terms, the immune reaction to different foods tested in a given individual at a given point in time. It is not a score, per se, to be interpreted as a measure of clinical or immunological severity for that individual or between individuals. This is because the amount of IgA antibody made by a given person is particular for the immune function of that person. Furthermore, sometimes a person can display what can be viewed as immunological and nutritional “exhaustion,” whereby a more significant and symptomatic immunologic food sensitivity is accompanied by a lower positive measured anti-food antibody value (rather than a higher positive). In such an instance, following clinical improvement and improved nutritional status (while the suspect antigenic foods are withdrawn), values can actually be higher for a time before finally falling into the negative range after several years.

Thus, the overall average food sensitivity antibody value for this panel is an assessment of your overall humoral immunologic food reactivity, which can help determine if dietary elimination trials may help you. If the mean value is less than 10 Units, the humoral immune reactions can be considered absent (negative); if greater than or equal to 10 Units, they can be considered present. Rather than reporting the absolute value of a positive result for each individual food, since it cannot be considered as an assessment of severity, the results are reported in relative terms between the foods tested. This provides you with the knowledge of which foods are stimulating the most immune response which, in turn, is indeed the most practically applied information to dietary elimination trials. The report information that follows is based on these facts.

While all of the foods tested can be immune-stimulating, the hierarchy of reactions detected were as follows:

Food toward which you displayed most immunologic reactivity: Walnut
Food for which there was no significant immunologic reactivity: Corn, Rice, Tuna, Oat, Chicken, Cashew, Pork, Beef, Almond, White potato

Within each class of foods to which you displayed multiple reactions, the hierarchy of those reactions detected were as follows:

Nuts:
Nut toward which you displayed the most immunologic reactivity: Walnut

Dietary Recommendation Based on Test Results to Individual Foods: This test panel was designed to guide your choices when building a new more healthful, less antigenic dietary plan. The results are delivered in such a way that you are not left with “nothing to eat,” but instead they guide you in avoiding the foods in each group that are most stimulating to your immune system. We discourage dietary changes that involve removing too many foods at once. This can lead you to feel too hungry too often, especially if adequate healthful replacement foods are not readily available. Dietary elimination (beyond gluten-free, dairy-free, and soy-free) is best approached over a period of weeks to months and sometimes years, removing one or two additional foods at a time, rather than removing many foods at once.

If you are experiencing symptoms possibly attributable to chronic immunological food sensitivity, such as chronic headaches, abdominal symptoms (pain, cramping, bloating, gas, diarrhea and/or constipation), sinus congestion, arthritis, chronic skin problems/rashes, fibromyalgia, and/or chronic fatigue, it may benefit you to avoid the foods for which you are most reactive first, followed, if necessary by those to which you are intermediately and least reactive.

You can use the hierarchal results from each specific class of food, within which you reacted to multiple antigens, to make the wisest dietary decision when choosing which food(s) from that class to keep in your diet. Choose the food(s) to which you were least reactive (or in the case of potato, non-reactive).

Avoiding all grains, most antigenic meats (such as these), and nightshades is an important part of the most optimized anti-inflammatory diet.

As nuts and seeds are a very healthful source of vegetarian protein and heart-protective oils and minerals, rather than avoiding all nuts and seeds, you can render nuts and seeds less antigenic, more digestible, and more easily tolerated by choosing the few that you seem to best tolerate overall, soaking a one-day supply in a glass jar filled with clean water for 4-8 hours (or for ease, overnight), and pouring off the water and rinsing before eating. The resultant soaked nuts or seeds can be eaten as is (alone or with fresh or dried fruit), blended into nut butters (by adding some water), or added to “smoothies.”

Interpretation of Fecal Anti-gliadin IgA: The level of intestinal anti-gliadin IgA antibody was elevated, indicative of active dietary gluten sensitivity. For optimal health; resolution or improvement of gluten-induced syndromes (mainly falling into six categories abbreviated as NAAAGS – neuropsychiatric, autoimmune, asthma, abdominal, glandular deficiencies/hyperactivity or skin diseases); resolution of symptoms known to be associated with gluten sensitivity (such as abdominal symptoms - pain, cramping, bloating, gas, diarrhea and/or constipation, chronic headaches, chronic sinus congestion, depression, arthritis, chronic skin problems/rashes, fibromyalgia, and/or chronic fatigue); and prevention of small intestinal damage and malnutrition, osteoporosis, and damage to other tissues (like nerves, brain, joints, muscles, thyroid, pancreas, other glands, skin, liver, spleen, among others), it is recommended that you follow a strict and permanent gluten free diet. As gluten sensitivity is a genetic syndrome, you may want to have your relatives screened as well.

For additional information on result interpretation, as well as educational information on the subject of gluten sensitivity, please see the "FAQ Result Interpretation," "FAQ Gluten/Food Sensitivity," and "Research & Education" links on our EnteroLab.com website.

Interpretation of Fecal Anti-casein (cow’s milk) IgA: A value less than 10 Units indicates that there currently is minimal or no immunologic reaction to milk, and hence no direct evidence of food sensitivity to this specific food. However, because 1 in 500 people cannot make IgA at all, and rarely, some immunocompetent people can still have clinically significant reactions to a food antigen despite the lack of a significant antibody reaction (because the reactions primarily involve T cells), if you have an immune syndrome or symptoms associated with food sensitivity, such as chronic headaches, abdominal symptoms (pain, cramping, bloating, gas, diarrhea and/or constipation), chronic sinus congestion, arthritis, chronic skin problems/rashes, fibromyalgia, and/or chronic fatigue, it is recommended that you try a strict removal of suspect foods from your diet for up to 12 months despite a negative test. If you have been on a diet reduced or devoid of the suspect food for many months or years (usually but not always requires two or more years), this can also (but will not always) reduce your fecal antibody level to that food into the normal range despite underlying ongoing sensitivity to that food.

Interpretation of Fecal Anti-ovalbumin (chicken egg) IgA: A value less than 10 Units indicates that there currently is minimal or no immunologic reaction to egg, and hence no direct evidence of food sensitivity to this specific food. However, because 1 in 500 people cannot make IgA at all, and rarely, some immunocompetent people can still have clinically significant reactions to a food antigen despite the lack of a significant antibody reaction (because the reactions primarily involve T cells), if you have an immune syndrome or symptoms associated with food sensitivity, such as chronic headaches, abdominal symptoms (pain, cramping, bloating, gas, diarrhea and/or constipation), chronic sinus congestion, arthritis, chronic skin problems/rashes, fibromyalgia, and/or chronic fatigue, it is recommended that you try a strict removal of suspect foods from your diet for up to 12 months despite a negative test. If you have been on a diet reduced or devoid of the suspect food for many months or years (usually but not always requires two or more years), this can also (but will not always) reduce your fecal antibody level to that food into the normal range despite underlying ongoing sensitivity to that food.

Interpretation of Fecal Anti-soy IgA: Levels of fecal IgA antibody to food antigens greater than or equal to 10 Units are indicative of an immune reaction, and hence immunologic “sensitivity” to that food. It is recommended that for any elevated fecal antibody level to a highly antigenic food such as soy, that it be removed from your diet.

For more information about result interpretation, please see http://www.enterolab.com/StaticPages/FaqResult.aspx

Stool analysis performed and/or supervised by: Frederick Ogunji, Ph.D., EnteroLab
Molecular Gene Analysis performed by: American Red Cross
Interpretation of all results by: Kenneth D. Fine, M.D., EnteroLab

Thank You For Allowing EnteroLab to Help You Attain Optimum Intestinal And Overall Health.
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Post by Stanz »

Did you do the genetic testing, Monique? Curious to see what those results were, cause this report ends with the Molecular Gene Analysis notation that I had on mine and my daughter and grandson.

Interesting to see how these tests have evolved in the last 3 years.
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Hello again,

Just want to thank all my friends here for supporting me during the last couple of months: I am not only celebrating the positive results from enterolab, I am MOSTLY celebrating the fact that I started eating (period) this last week with the help of Elavil--or E-LOV-IL as I named it recently. After a couple of months of juicing and fasting mostly, weight loss and sickness, I can finally CHEW on something. I am going slow, I need my GI to heal first, but it is a wonderful beginning.

So, here is a virtual cheers to all of you:

Cathy
Martha
Lesley (oy-ve! and gmar hatima tova :-)
Christine
Wonderful Tex
Gloria
jenny
Mz..
Jean
Cory
Terri (started taking my elixir at 6p.m so I wake up at 8-9a.m!)
Z. (yes, lucky, indeed, on that front at least)
Paula
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Leah
(Where is Polly, Gabes, Joe??? MIA's)

And YES, I had cheese today, brandished it in the air in your names!

I feel humbled and gratified for having everyone of you in my life!

Love,

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Monique,

Do you mind if I add your test results to our list?

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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.
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Go right ahead Tex. I hope the IRS won't hunt me down one day based on my poop report :-)


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wmonique2 wrote:Go right ahead Tex. I hope the IRS won't hunt me down one day based on my poop report :-)


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You might land up on their shi* list.

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You are too funny, but I can completely relate to what you are feeling now, Monique. Just having a roadmap to go by is such a relief. Let's hope the IRS isn't into poop. A few months ago, I sent this email message to Lesley:

"I just posted this status update on Facebook - true story - just about shi* my pants (which for us doesn't take much) when I opened the envelope when I got home from work last night:

Never a good thing to get a fat envelope from the IRS. Yesterday we got one saying we owed another $28,772 in tax, $5,754 in penalties and
$1,440 in interest on our '10 tax return, for a whopping total of $35,966.

They "misread" my one of my 1099's for $825.00 as being $82,500.00. Thankfully we use an accountant, but what a pain and sure not what I wanted to see at the end of a long day."

It's since been resolved as their error, no apologies from them, however, for their error. If we're ever taxed for poop, we're all in big trouble.
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Jean,

VERY FUNNY! At least it'll be a terrain I am familiar with! S...t is definitely I subject I know something about. I could make a whole new category on Jeopardy!


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ROFLMAO...............ok that was a funny conversation!!!!! Love the humor!!!!!
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Holy cr-- that was funny.
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Post by carolm »

That is good news Monique. I am also jealous-- if I could just eat corn tortillas it would make a big difference in the variety of what I eat.

Enjoy. Hope you are feeling much better soon.

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Hi Carol,

Thank you for the good wishes...I am so darn sick of chicken soup and rice cakes, I cannot begin to tell you. Alevil has made a huge difference in the dyspepsia and nausea, almost all gone.
And now I found out I can diversify my food selection. That is truly a gift.

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Post by brandy »

Hi Monique,

Three words--Goats Milk Gouda---and it is even from Georgia! It is my fave cheese of all time. I think it is an artisinal cheese from a town in South GA and I can't remember which town.
I get at at my wine shop in North FL and it has dutch scenes in green and orange colors on the rind of the wheel. If you ever run accross that I highly recommend it.

Enjoy all the cheeses! (but slowly work into them)

Glad you are doing better! Brandy
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