EnteroLab Results

[seeljanerun]

They came finally! andd were not too surprising (i.e. when I eliminated dairy, soy & gluten in the past, I was still eating lots of cashews and eggs, and saw no improvement - makes sense now!). I have been on an elimination diet 24 days now, and am finally seeing some results, (with no medication!), hooray! It is such a relief after 7 some years of chronic D.

I think the thing I will miss the most is raw milk & greek yogurt =(

The other thing I am thinking about now is a trip I have planned to buenos aires in the winter - how am I going to be able to communicate that I can't have dairy, soy, gluten, grains, eggs, nuts, fodmaps & most (pretty much all) fruits without confounding servers/chefs? Suggestions?

Gives me a headache just to think about it...

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Gluten/Antigenic Food Sensitivity Stool Panel
Fecal Anti-gliadin IgA 131 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Fecal Anti-casein (cow’s milk) IgA 17 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Fecal Anti-ovalbumin (chicken egg) IgA 48 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Fecal Anti-soy IgA 22 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Expanded Antigenic Food Sensitivity Stool Panel
Mean Value 11 Antigenic Foods 18 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+):
None Rice
Corn
Oat
Chicken
Pork
Beef
Walnut
Almond
White potato
None Tuna
Cashew


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

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

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

[CathyMe.]

Hi Jane,
So glad that you're doing well with no medication!
I can give you some advice about traveling. I'm going to Panama in December and we are staying at a B&B for the majority of the trip. I've already contacted them and they are more than willing to accomodate my diet! I would ask where you are staying to see what they can do to help you. I have also brought food (rice cakes, tuna, protein powder) with me when I travel out of the country, just in case and to get me by in airports.

[seeljanerun]

Cathy,

Thanks for the tip! My issue is that all the food I eat now is fresh, so I guess I will have to hunt around to find something that works for packing (thinking of trying beef jerky w/ no additives)..I'll definitely bring a jar of ghee with me!

Calling the hotel is a great idea too. I'm staying at the hilton there, so I hope they can be accommodating.

I am traveling with my mother and father-in-law and husband, and they all have no food issues & really enjoy eating out places, so I imagine we will probably go to a variety of different places to eat; I will just have to be armed with lots of safe snacks and get a dietary-concerns card!

[tex]

Hi Jane,

For reliably communicating your dietary needs to chefs at various restaurants, there is no more efficient way than to hand the waiter/waitress a "to-the-chef" card and ask them to give the card to the chef. The card lists foods that you cannot eat and offers suggestions of foods that you can safely eat. Most chefs greatly appreciate the suggested foods that are included on the card, since that gives them a starting place for planning a meal. When presented with a card that only lists foods that the client cannot eat, some chefs will simply throw up their hands and say that there's nothing they can prepare that would be safe to eat. There's an example card in the back of my book, or you can find an example posted here.

Change the information on the card to match your own personal needs, and once you have it set up on your computer, you can print as many copies as you need, whenever you want, either on card stock or heavyweight paper. When traveling in foreign countries, if you're not familiar with the language there, have a bilingual friend translate the card for you, and then print as many copies as you need.

The way that this section is listed seems confusing:

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+):
None Rice
Corn
Oat
Chicken
Pork
Beef
Walnut
Almond
White potato
None Tuna
Cashew

I can't tell which foods are in which category.

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

Tex

[seeljanerun]

Tex,

thanks for the tip! Yeah it seems like it would be most productive to ask them to make me a meal out of specific food items and nothing else, rather than give them a laundry list of all the foods I can't eat.

& sorry about the ambiguity; I didn't notice that it pasted that way:

Food to which there was no significant immunological reactivity: None

Food to which there was some immunological reactivity (1+):

Rice
Corn
Oat
Chicken
Pork
Beef
Walnut
Almond
White potato

Food to which there was moderate immunological reactivity (2+): None

Food to which there was significant and/or the most immunological reactivity (3+):

Tuna
Cashew

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I don't mind if you add the results!

[tex]

Jane,

Thanks for the clarification. You came out way better than most on the C panel results, with only tuna and cashew showing up as major problems.

Thanks, I'll add your results to the list.

Tex

[Lesley]

Tex, I had the same reaction and thought it was me being stupid!