My Enterolab results

Nettierud · Post by **Nettierud** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 2:34 pm

What do you think of this? It looks like gluten is the only red flag or am I missing something?

Gluten/Antigenic Food Sensitivity Stool Panel
Fecal Anti-gliadin IgA 14 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Fecal Anti-casein (cow’s milk) IgA 4 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Fecal Anti-ovalbumin (chicken egg) IgA 3 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

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

Expanded Antigenic Food Sensitivity Stool Panel
Mean Value 11 Antigenic Foods 5 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Food to which there was no significant immunological reactivity:
Rice
Walnut
Oat
Tuna
Beef
Chicken
Corn
Pork
Cashew
White potato
Almond
No +1's. +2 or+3's

Post by **tex** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 4:28 pm

Hi Nettie,

Yes, you're interpreting it correctly. Lucky You!

It's still possible that you might be sensitive to one of the other proteins in this foods, but that's not very likely. It's possible to be sensitive to other proteins in those foods because out of necessity, the EnteroLab tests are so specific that each of them only tests for antibodies to one specific protein, so the tests are targeted to detect antibodies to the most common protein in each food, that is the most likely to be a problem.

While you may have to be careful with certain other foods until your healing has progressed further, eventually, the only food that you will have to avoid on a continuing basis should be gluten.

Thanks for posting your results. Do you mind if I add them to our collection here?

Tex

Nettierud · Post by **Nettierud** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 4:32 pm

Sure by all means Tex.

ldubois7 · Post by **ldubois7** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 4:38 pm

Congrats! What good news! How is your MC? Do you have less severe symptoms because of the good results? Just wondering how that works.

Tex...generally, will I always have to avoid all the foods I had reactions to...which was all 11 tested (as you mentioned above)?

Nettierud · Post by **Nettierud** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 4:55 pm

Thanks Linda. I'm not sure how my MC compares to others but I never noticed any worsening of the D. after eating any of the offending foods. I've never felt the pain or cramping that so many talk of here so I do feel fortunate that way. I lost enough weight that friends and family have been concerned so I really hope that I can start turning this around now and start healing with a new gluten free diet.

ldubois7 · Post by **ldubois7** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 5:03 pm

A gluten free diet will work wonders for you!

I loved to bake with almond flour (before I got my Enterolab results). There are many recipes on pinterest that use almond flour that are fantastic.

Good luck and keep us posted!

Post by **tex** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 6:30 pm

Linda wrote:Tex...generally, will I always have to avoid all the foods I had reactions to...which was all 11 tested (as you mentioned above)?

Based on the experiences of many members here, It appears that the main offenders (gluten, dairy, and soy) will always be a problem, and eggs are a "maybe". While this isn't chiseled in stone, it sort of appears that the other food sensitivities (those in the 11 other antigenic foods group, for example), may be due to molecular mimicry, which raises the possibility that for some of us, if we carefully exclude the main offenders, heal sufficiently, and luck is on our side, we may eventually be able to eat some or even all of those other 11 foods, especially if we do so on a rotational basis (waiting at least 3 days or more before eating the same food again).

Unfortunately that doesn't work for everyone, especially if a significant amount of stress is present. With this disease, for many of us, stress can trump the best laid plans.

Tex

ldubois7 · Post by **ldubois7** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 7:09 pm

Thanks, Tex. That gives me hope!

Leah · Post by **Leah** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 7:43 pm

congrats Nettie! If you are still having symptoms, I would avoid fiber foods for now along with gluten. Eating them can really hinder healing. Once you get some healing under your belt and start seeing normans, you can add these foods back in slowly.

Good luck
leah

jgivens · Post by **jgivens** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:02 pm

Congrats, Nettie! I agree with Leah. Don't rush to add things back. I have had to be very slow with dairy products because as long as my gut stays inflamed, even though I did not test sensitive to dairy, it will be hard on my stomach. My testing results were similar except I reacted to oats and eggs. I felt very lucky that it is only a few foods that I react to.

lando · Post by **lando** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:15 pm

ldubois7 wrote:Congrats! What good news! How is your MC? Do you have less severe symptoms because of the good results? Just wondering how that works.

Tex...generally, will I always have to avoid all the foods I had reactions to...which was all 11 tested (as you mentioned above)?

I don't think it works like that. I got a worse result, and my symptoms aren't very bad.

Congrats OP, I wish my test would have came out like that.

ldubois7 · Post by **ldubois7** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:27 am

I wondered how that works for most???

So, high reactions on Enterolab tests doesn't necessarily mean a longer & harder crawl back?

Linda

Post by **tex** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:52 am

Linda wrote:So, high reactions on Enterolab tests doesn't necessarily mean a longer & harder crawl back?

Correct. Higher results simply mean that you have been reacting for a longer period of time. IOW, our antibody levels continue to increase as we continue to react.

Similarly, more severe diagnostic damage markers have no correlation with actual clinical symptoms. IOW, the level of villus atrophy has no correlation with the severity of celiac symptoms, and the biopsy sample lymphocyte count has no bearing on the severity of symptoms of LC. Likewise, the thickness of collagen bands in biopsy samples does not correlate with the severity of clinical symptoms for somone who has CC.

Many GI specialists make the mistake of telling LC or CC patients that they have a "mild" case, simply because they had a relatively low level of infiltrated lymphocytes, or only slightly increased collagen band thickness. Those doctors are making that mistake because they are making an assumption that has no basis in fact. Research proves them wrong (if they would just bother to read the research available in the literature).

It is true, however, that if you have a relatively high antibody level in the EnteroLab test results, it will take significantly longer for your antibody level to decay to below the normal level, when compared with someone who has a much lower (but still positive) antibody level. That doesn't necessarily mean that it will take longer for you to reach remission.

Tex

Zizzle · Post by **Zizzle** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:58 am

Nettie,
I have LC and I also rarely experience any pain or cramping. I have the classic "painless" D. I've taken that to mean my issues are largely relegated to the colon, not higher up, but I could be wrong.

Nettierud · Post by **Nettierud** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:31 am

Thanks for the support everyone, such a lot to learn in a little time but I think I'm getting the gist of it. I do have to be careful with the fiber as I ate a bit much of that yesterday and paid for it so now I have to slow back down a bit.
I have to be more diligent with the gluten free as well, I inadvertantly tasted some gravy on Sunday while cooking for my family and I had thickened it with flour. Gave myself a good talking to after that one.
Hey Zizzle, that does make sense, you may be right with that theory.