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My Enterolab Test is Back!

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I feel SO grateful. I will be able to have some extra sharp cheese some day soon! I also feel very foolish, as the ONLY thing that I have not taken out of my diet that people often react to is eggs. I am sensitive to eggs! I have been having them everyday for months for breakfast and sometimes more than once a day. No wonder I wasn't feeling better. If you keep hitting yourself in the head with a hammer, you will continue to have a sore head. :smile: The other thing I showed sensitivity to is oats and that would explain the rather violent reaction I had when I had a bowl of G-F oatmeal on Thursday--to which I added an egg for protein!!

It did NOT show a tree nut allergy that I have had for a very long time and carry an EpiPen for. Perhaps that is because it has been a very long time since I have eaten tree nuts? I certainly won't tempt fate to try it. I was also fairly sure that soy would be on the list, as legumes do not seem to be my friends. All in all, I feel very glad to know that I am not sensitive to a whole lot of foods. This makes life so much easier. I can even look forward to having eggplant this summer.

As I said to Tex, it is all in perspective. I would have griped about my restrictions last summer and fall if you had told me that I had the sensitivities below, but I KNOW now that it could be SO much worse and I am very grateful. I have a call into Phyllis at Enterolab, as I have questions about the genetic testing.

Tex has posted my results with the rest of you but here they are if you don't want to wade thru everyone else's:
Gluten/Antigenic Food Sensitivity Stool Panel
Fecal Anti-gliadin IgA 26 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Fecal Anti-casein (cow’s milk) IgA 6 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Fecal Anti-ovalbumin (chicken egg) IgA 14 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Fecal Anti-soy IgA 5 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Gluten Sensitivity Gene Test
HLA-DQB1 Molecular analysis, Allele 1 0303

HLA-DQB1 Molecular analysis, Allele 2 0601

Serologic equivalent: HLA-DQ 3,1 (Subtype 9,6)

Expanded Antigenic Food Sensitivity Stool Panel
Mean Value 11 Antigenic Foods 7 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

While all of the foods tested can be immune-stimulating, the hierarchy of reactions detected were as follows:
Food to which there was no significant immunological reactivity: Food to which there was some immunological reactivity (1+): Food to which there was moderate immunological reactivity (2+): Food to which there was significant and/or the most immunological reactivity (3+):
Rice
Walnut
Tuna
Chicken
Corn
Almond
Cashew
White potato
Beef
Pork
None None Oat


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

Grains:
Grain toward which you displayed the most immunologic reactivity: Oat
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Hi Jane!

I'm waiting for my lab results. I check every day! How long did it take you to get the results?

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Post by Leah »

Hi Jane.
Cheese! I would be so happy with that result! I guess the gluten didn't surprise you :) Too bad about the eggs, but it's one that can easily be taken out. I hope that once you stop eating eggs, you will heal fast.

It's good news about the soy also. Legumes could be bothering you right now because they have a lot of fiber. Once you feel that you are in remission, you probably could try it out and be fine.

A thought: You may still be allergic to tree nuts. That is an IgE reaction, where as these tests are an IgA reaction, so I wouldn't go for them if I were you. If you want to know for sure, you could get an allergy blood test.

Thanks for sharing
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Post by Lesley »

I would have killed for those results, and still would! Cheese! Wow!
The only thing to which I am NOT sensitive is oats. I would give them back in a heartbeat if I could have cheese and yogurt!

Congratulations. You should heal fast now you know.
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Jane, yup, cheese, ice cream--making me hungry! Thanks for sharing your results.

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Yes. I feel like I dodged a bullet with dairy and I KNOW how lucky I am. Tell me though, what do the rest of you do to replace eggs? I talked to Phyllis at Enterolab yesterday and she said the same thing about tree nuts and IgE as you did, Leah. That makes more sense to me anyway and given the reactions I've had in the past, I was not going to try it again unless I had an EpiPen at the ready!
She also enlightened me regarding my genetic panel. If any of you had that done and still don't understand it, Phyllis can be most helpful. She was able to explain the second allele a little more. I feel a little like I have a loaded gluten gun to my head after she told me all of the neurological implications it has if it gets a chance to "act up"--peripheral neuropathy, ataxia,"social behaviors"--which means ADHD, depression, schizophrenia, to name a few, as well as Alzheimer's and/or memory loss. BOTH of my adult children AND their father are ADHD and suffer from depression. I think my kids probably received a "double whammy" from their father and I. As my son has said repeatedly, "You guys should have had genetic counseling before you had us." He wants to do some more reading about the alleles. Anybody (Tex?) know where I can find more info?
Linda, it took exactly 2 weeks from the day I sent it to receive the results. I hope you get yours soon!
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Post by tex »

Hi Jane,

If you're looking for more information on genetics and epigenetics associated with food sensitivities, MC, etc., here are a few that provide some insight. The last one is an unlisted video on youtube, and the one before that is a NOVA program on PBS. The first two are articles by Dr. Scot Lewey, a doctor who actually "gets it", and who is one of the leading GI docs on food sensitivities. The third one is a research article by Dr. Fine and associates.

Genetics of Food Allergy and Intolerance

http://ezinearticles.com/?Genetics-of-F ... &id=301254



Understanding the Genetics of Gluten Sensitivity

http://ezinearticles.com/?Understanding ... &id=208573



High prevalence of celiac sprue-like HLA-DQ genes and enteropathy in patients with the microscopic colitis syndrome.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10950045



HLA-DRB1*1501, -DQB1*0301, -DQB1*0302, -DQB1*0602, and -DQB1*0603 alleles are associated with more severe disease outcome on MRI in patients with multiple sclerosis.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17531857



Why Your DNA Isn't Your Destiny

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 13,00.html



It's all in the epigenes

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/new ... 4eb4f690f9



Epigenetics

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/epigenetics.html



Genetic Roulette - The Gamble of our Lives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnlTYFKB ... relmfu[url]

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Post by jgivens »

Thanks, Tex---exactly what I was looking for. A friend of mine who is a biology teacher shows the Epigenetics DVD to her students and I got to see it a few weeks ago. Fascinating stuff!
Jane
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