It would be very unusual to be sensitive to beetroot, broccoli, and carrot. That might be possible, but I don't recall anyone here ever posting about a sensitivity to either of those foods.
Tex
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Thanks for retyping the metals info
the lead being high is no surprise to you...
arsenic and titanium being high could be worth investigating
interesting that they test for both dental amalgum and mercury... (when your gut is a bit more healed i have a good chelation protocol for this. )
with the zinc being medium and copper being low, it might be worth getting a blood test to check the actual serum levels of these two. as the right ratio is important.
how do you and your partner feel about the results??
the lead being high is no surprise to you...
arsenic and titanium being high could be worth investigating
interesting that they test for both dental amalgum and mercury... (when your gut is a bit more healed i have a good chelation protocol for this. )
with the zinc being medium and copper being low, it might be worth getting a blood test to check the actual serum levels of these two. as the right ratio is important.
how do you and your partner feel about the results??
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Hello Tex........tex wrote:It would be very unusual to be sensitive to beetroot, broccoli, and carrot. That might be possible, but I don't recall anyone here ever posting about a sensitivity to either of those foods.
Tex
I was surprised too. I have been tested for Coeliac disease and the results have always come back negative. I was also surprised gluten wasn't highlighted - but then again I haven't eaten gluten knowingly since 2010. I guarantee if I eat any gluten, even the tiniest amount I react within 30minutes or less with violent abdominal cramps and explosive WD.
When I decided to do the test from this unknown company I did realise the results may not be completely reliable. In light of the intolerances they highlight I believe I need to do the York Tests and the Enterolab tests.
I emailed the company before ordering tests from Enterolab just to make sure they could accept my sample. I'll do A-1 and C-1 panel tests - if they agree. As soon as I get the go ahead my stool sample will be on its way.
In the interim I will construct a diet of items that are not on their intolerance list and just see how I feel. Once all the results are in from Enterolab and York a better picture of the foods I should avoid will emerge - well, that's what I'm hoping will happen.
What would you do Tex - I still believe I have a long way to heal!
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Hello Gabes.......Gabes-Apg wrote:Thanks for retyping the metals info
the lead being high is no surprise to you...
arsenic and titanium being high could be worth investigating
interesting that they test for both dental amalgum and mercury... (when your gut is a bit more healed i have a good chelation protocol for this. )
with the zinc being medium and copper being low, it might be worth getting a blood test to check the actual serum levels of these two. as the right ratio is important.
how do you and your partner feel about the results??
My partner and myself are not setting too much store in these results. As a meducal professional she's also not convinced one can get so much information from four strands of hair. We are both keeping an open mind. I'll stop the items they suggest and see.
No surprise about the lead......... I felt the tap water wasn't fit to drink, glad I acted on that instinct years ago.
Arsenic is a worry, its on apple pips but also may have been used in medicines that were around when I was a child such as teething stuff. I had my stomach pumped out when I was about a year old after climbing up onto something to reach the teething stuff my mother used for me. I drank the bottle - was caught in the act. The hospital was at the end of our road fortunately.
The other day I ordered Titanium patches for my shoulder pain and they began to itch so were binned.
Silver & gold I have known for years from working with metals and wearing the stuff. My wedding ring is platinum now because of the irritation under gold rings. Just remembered - there is a very long gold dental bridge in my mouth, its solid as a rock. Would that cause problems?
I have an appointment with the GP tomorrow, I have asked him before to send me to an allergy specialist and he remains unmoved. I'll ask him to do send me for copervand zinc blood levels and insist he refers me to an allergy specialist. The GI is referring me to a registered dietitian - no harm can come of that - I'll keep an open mind and listen and then decide if its for me.
Please tell me about the chelation protocol for dental amalgum and mercury, I'd love to know.
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Jen,
If you're going to order tests from EnteroLab, they recommend that you collect the sample before making any additional diet changes. IOW, they prefer that you continue to eat whatever you're eating now if you're planning to order a test kit from them in the near future. If you change your diet very far ahead of collecting the sample, it might miss some of the minor food sensitivities.
The celiac blood tests are so insensitive that they will not detect anything less than fully developed celiac disease (which usually takes years to cause enough small intestinal damage to trigger a positive test result), and they will never detect non-celiac gluten sensitivity, so they are useless for MC patients (unless we also happen to have fully developed celiac disease).
Tex
If you're going to order tests from EnteroLab, they recommend that you collect the sample before making any additional diet changes. IOW, they prefer that you continue to eat whatever you're eating now if you're planning to order a test kit from them in the near future. If you change your diet very far ahead of collecting the sample, it might miss some of the minor food sensitivities.
The celiac blood tests are so insensitive that they will not detect anything less than fully developed celiac disease (which usually takes years to cause enough small intestinal damage to trigger a positive test result), and they will never detect non-celiac gluten sensitivity, so they are useless for MC patients (unless we also happen to have fully developed celiac disease).
Tex
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.
Jen wrote:The GI is referring me to a registered dietitian - no harm can come of that - I'll keep an open mind and listen and then decide if its for me.
You're wise to weigh the advice from a dietitian, because no dietitian is trained to treat MC. The diet recommendations they make for Crohn's and UC patients will not work for MC patients.
The same caveat applies to allergy specialists — the tests they use are not applicable for the type of food sensitivities that are a problem with MC. They test for IgE and IgG antibodies in the blood, but the antibodies that affect our digestive system are IgA antibodies, and IgA antibodies are found in the intestines and in stool. The blood level of IgA antibodies is usually below the sensitivity threshold of the tests used. (IOW, the T-cell inflammation that causes MC is triggered by IgA antibodies, not IgE or IgG antibodies).
Tex
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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natythingycolbery
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Just a slight thread hijack. I'm apparently intolerant to beetroot (it's in my list of intolerances under my name)tex wrote:It would be very unusual to be sensitive to beetroot, broccoli, and carrot. That might be possible, but I don't recall anyone here ever posting about a sensitivity to either of those foods.
Tex
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Diagnosed with MC (LC) Aug 2010
Katy,
Are you actually intolerant to beetroot (does it actually cause a reaction), or did that result just show up on a blood test for allergies? Those tests are notorious for both false positives and false negatives.
Tex
Are you actually intolerant to beetroot (does it actually cause a reaction), or did that result just show up on a blood test for allergies? Those tests are notorious for both false positives and false negatives.
Tex
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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Hello Katy,natythingycolbery wrote:From memory yes it does, but I've never been a huge fan of beetroot anyway.
I'm not a fan of beetroot either. I have eaten on occasion but under protest. I can't specifically remember a reaction, I possibly was having several items that made reactions along with my daily skin itches etc.
I'm not fond of the colour or the taste of Beetroot.
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natythingycolbery wrote:I did one through this company: http://www.yorktest.com/
I believe it was a finger prick test and it picked up on 23 food intolerances. I did the intro test first to check that I had intolerances then progressed to the full test.
The only thing is, it only gives ratings of 0-4 for intolerances. But it did help me.[/url]
Finally........after many months of being undecided I did the York Test yesterday, its on its way to the lab now and hopefully the result will follow.
Next on the agenda is the Enterolab test. Not sure how the results may be skewed being on
daily anti-histamine and now avoiding so many different foodstuffs. I'll publish results in this thread to keep all the results together.
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