Enterolab - food sensitivity

[Mundol]

Hi

I was recently diagnosed with lymphocytic. (Colonoscopy/endoscopy) Gastro put me on time released 3x daily (decrease 2x last two week) butasonide for 8 weeks total. Separately rheumatologist prescribed vit d (50,000) 1x week (Vit d otc not worked for years and bloodwork at 20 remains too low a number)

Btw neither one talked about food and a diet plan.


So it seems people pay enterolab for knowledge of food sensitivities. Going to an allergist is a waste of time?

Can I even go to pay for a test with enterolab while I’m on butensonide? I suspect I will have to get right back on butasonide if it does not eliminate diarrhea after 8 week treatment.

Thanks

[tex]

Welcome to the group. I hope you can find the solutions you need, here.

Btw neither one talked about food and a diet plan.

No surprise there. Most gastroenterologists either don't know enough about food sensitivities to even offer practical diet advice, or they realize that most patients would rather pop a pill than change their diet.

So it seems people pay enterolab for knowledge of food sensitivities. Going to an allergist is a waste of time?

Allergists are properly trained to treat skin issues and respiratory system issues, but when it comes to digestive system issues, their training is woefully inadequate/misguided. They try to diagnose food sensitivities using blood tests (or even skin tests), using IgE antibody detecting methods, when the food sensitivities associated with digestive system issues involve IgA antibodies. And those antibodies are concentrated in stool, and rarely show up in the blood in numbers sufficient to allow accurate diagnosis. And allergists usually concentrate on IgE-based antibodies, anyway, rather than IgA antibodies The stool tests offered by EnteroLab involve ELISA-based lab tests properly focused on IGA antibodies, and they seem to be the only laboratory in the world capable of accurately diagnosing food sensitivities, based on our experiences.

Can I even go to pay for a test with enterolab while I’m on butensonide? I suspect I will have to get right back on butasonide if it does not eliminate diarrhea after 8 week treatment.

Unless you've been using budesonide for more than six months to a year, or more, the EnteroLab test results shouldn't be significantly affected. So if you want to order those stool tests from EnteroLab, it would be best to do so before you've been using budesonide long enough to begin suppressing your immune system. When you order a test kit, be sure to call the lab and ask for the insurance codes associated with the tests if you want to see if your insurance will reimburse you for the cost of those tests.

I hope this helps.

Tex