Enterolab Test Results

[mcnomore]

I'm do glad I did the test, but I don't like that I reacted to everything. Sigh. Guess I'm switching to turkey and lamb.

Food to which there was no significant immunological reactivity:none Food to which there was some immunological reactivity (1+):4 Food to which there was moderate immunological reactivity (2+): 5 Food to which there was significant and/or the most immunological reactivity (3+):2

Chicken,Tuna,Pork,White potato-1+

Corn,Beef,Walnut,Cashew,Almond-2+

Oat,Rice-3+


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
Grain toward which you displayed intermediate immunologic reactivity: Rice
Grain toward which you displayed the least immunologic reactivity: Corn

Meats:
Meat toward which you displayed the most immunologic reactivity: Beef
Meat toward which you were next most immunologically reactive: Chicken
Meat toward which you displayed intermediate immunologic reactivity: Tuna
Meat toward which you displayed the least immunologic reactivity: Pork

Nuts:
Nut toward which you displayed the most immunologic reactivity: Walnut
Nut toward which you displayed intermediate immunologic reactivity: Cashew
Nut toward which you displayed the least immunologic reactivity: Almond

Nightshades:
You displayed immunologic reactivity to white potato, the member of the nightshade family usually consumed most often and in greatest quantities. While this does not necessarily mean you would react to all other nightshade foods (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant), it is possible. In the realm of elimination diets for immunologic disorders, nightshades are usually eliminated as the entire food class (i.e., all four previously mentioned foods in this class). This is especially important to the clinical setting of arthritis.

Should I avoid all of these foods, even the 1+?

[Zizzle]

Wow, sorry you have so many +. If this were MRT, the would say you should eliminate the 1+ foods for at least 60 days, then reintroduce one at a time. I also tested positive to walnuts and pork on MRT.

[mcnomore]

Thanks for the sympathy.

Thanks for the suggestion to wait 60 days.

I had been trying to find out how long would be advisable before introducing new foods, but I kept hearing "everyone is different" which is very true, but it's helpful to know what others have learned during their healing.

If I hear from enough people (unfortunately I haven't heard from many yet) that they found it best to wait x amount of time then I will consider that timing. I don't want to irritate my insides by getting too impatient to add foods.

[tex]

mcnomore,

The most important test result is missing. What was the overall score for the 11 antigenic foods? That score determines whether or not it may be important to avoid the +1 foods. If it's a relatively low number, those +1 foods may not be a problem (or not a significant problem). If it's a relatively high number, they're more likely to be a problem.

Tex

[mcnomore]

It was 33

[mcnomore]

Forgot to ask what that means.

[tex]

It means that those 11 foods are reactive enough that you may need to test those +1 foods by trial and error to see if you can safely tolerate them. As someone else mentioned, you don't have to cut them all out of your diet immediately, but if you are still having symptoms after removing all of the +3 and +2 foods from your diet, then there is a good chance that some of the +1 foods may be causing problems, if they are still in your diet.

Tex

[mcnomore]

Thanks for that info. I am only eating pork, none of the others right now and am doing well finally.

[mcnomore]

I was just looking at my last skin prick allergy tests and the results are almost identical to the Enterolab results. White potato, pork and oat were the only negatives on my last skin prick test, but positive on the Enterolab test.

My allergist does a lot of work with gluten sensitivity/Celiac because she began to notice that many of her patients were testing positive for oats, wheat, rye and barley on the skin prick tests. She now tests for the gene and all kinds of other gluten tests.

She does some blood test that tells her if I am still eating gluten which was obviously very helpful since it kept me looking for hidden gluten. The last blood test on 4/30 showed no gluten finally.

She believes if you get glutened that you should take 15 activated charcoal tablets with 1/2 glass of water right away and continue each day for 7 days at bed time and one hour after any meds.

[Leah]

Like Tex said, yo can go one of two ways.... take everything out and reintroduce the +1 foods in a couple of months if you feel good...... to keep eating those foods and see if you feel good anyway. if not not, THEN remove them.

Let us know how it goes
leah