Need some help in interrupting results: I presently am gluten free , no fresh fruits except blueberries, no fresh vegetables, no high fructose corn syrup. I do eat chicken, beef , peanut butter ,milk,eggs, applesauce and gluten free products such as cereal and glutino products.
Fecal Anti-gliadin IgA 136
Fecal Anti-casein IgA 25 units
Fecal -ovalbumin 13 units
Fecal -Anti -soy IgA 13 units
Mean Value 11 Antigenic 19 units
Food to which no signicant reaction- none
Food to which some 1- Corn, Rice chicken beef cashew almond walnut white potato
Food to which some oat and tuna
Food to which significant none
Do I need to give up chicken , Hamburg and peanut butter? These are my main foods . Do I need to go DF and SF?
Please advise.
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Any value over 10 for gluten, dairy, soy and eggs is significant, which means that these foods need to be eliminated which means milk and eggs need to go along with peanut butter. Also butter if you are using it. Peanuts are a legume like soy and if you react to soy you probably react to all legumes including peanuts. I took a look at the glutino products and they may eliminate gluten but they contain all sorts of questionable ingredients. Including milk and eggs and soy along with all kinds of gums that many people react to. It is best to avoid any product with a long ingredient list. Many people find that eliminating all sugar helps. Is your applesauce sugar free? Maybe you can try making your own.
You're probably ok with chicken and beef. I found that I could eat the foods listed at 1 but I eliminated any above that so you're probably also ok with rice too.
It takes some adjusting to a new restricted diet like this but after a while I found that it became easy. If you make your meals of an acceptable meat, a cooked vegetable that you tolerate and some rice you will probably be ok. Instead of butter you can use extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil or ghee, which is butter with the milk solids removed.
I find restricting my diet to be a lot easier than being sick.
Please feel free to ask any questions you might have.
Jean
You're probably ok with chicken and beef. I found that I could eat the foods listed at 1 but I eliminated any above that so you're probably also ok with rice too.
It takes some adjusting to a new restricted diet like this but after a while I found that it became easy. If you make your meals of an acceptable meat, a cooked vegetable that you tolerate and some rice you will probably be ok. Instead of butter you can use extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil or ghee, which is butter with the milk solids removed.
I find restricting my diet to be a lot easier than being sick.
Please feel free to ask any questions you might have.
Jean
Hi Zoey,
Jean did a great job of addressing your questions, so the only thing I might add is that if you want to play it extra-safe with your diet while you are recovering, rotating the foods that tested at the 1 level might be helpful in case you happen to react slightly to any of them. IOW for a rotation diet, if you eat beef one day, skip 2 days before eating it again. Of course, that may not be necessary, if you don't see any signs that you might be reacting to them.
Also, if you need some alternative meats for your plan, the safest meats appear to be turkey and lamb, or wild game meat, such as venison, because virtually no one reacts to them.
Good luck with your recovery, and keep us posted on your progress.
Tex
Jean did a great job of addressing your questions, so the only thing I might add is that if you want to play it extra-safe with your diet while you are recovering, rotating the foods that tested at the 1 level might be helpful in case you happen to react slightly to any of them. IOW for a rotation diet, if you eat beef one day, skip 2 days before eating it again. Of course, that may not be necessary, if you don't see any signs that you might be reacting to them.
Also, if you need some alternative meats for your plan, the safest meats appear to be turkey and lamb, or wild game meat, such as venison, because virtually no one reacts to them.
Good luck with your recovery, and keep us posted on your progress.
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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Thank you for reply.Just to add I have been doing ok with the present foods mentioned.All were rated 1. Should I Go dairy free? If so would I consume Lactose free products? Eggs have been one on main foods. I have been off Entocort for over a year. My most recent flare has subsided without any medications and I seem back on track. What foods would you recommend to add to my diet? What are the safest liquids to drink? I know these are broad topics but any suggestion would be appreciated. I seem to do ok with soy also.
Just a note I have Hashimoto and high anti nuclear antibodies also. Would this account for the higher IgA results?
Thyroid has been stable for years.i guess I was overwhelmed by results.
Just a note I have Hashimoto and high anti nuclear antibodies also. Would this account for the higher IgA results?
Thyroid has been stable for years.i guess I was overwhelmed by results.
Definitely. Casein could possibly be the main cause of your elevated ANA level (besides keeping your intestines inflamed). Elevated ANA levels are an indicator of systemic inflammation. Chronic intestinal inflammation leads to inflammation in other parts of the body. Therefore it's necessary to minimize inflammation in the gut, to prevent the spread of inflammation to other body systems.Zoey wrote:Should I Go dairy free?
No. Lactose-free products are almost always loaded with casein. It's the casein that's causing your immune sytstem to produce antibodies, not lactose.Zoey wrote:If so would I consume Lactose free products?
Zoey wrote:Just a note I have Hashimoto and high anti nuclear antibodies also. Would this account for the higher IgA results?
That's a very interesting question but as far as I am aware, such a connection has not been researched, suggesting that researchers do not consider that a connection is likely. While ANA and IgA are 2 totally different (and typically presumed to be independent) parameters, That does not necessarily mean that one cannot influence the other. From a practical viewpoint however, I would suspect that if any connection exists, the most likely scenario would be that an elevated intestinal IgA level would promote systemic inflammation, possibly resulting in an elevated ANA number (not the other way around).
IOW I would expect that elevated IgA results in the gut (due to intestinal inflammation) might be the cause of an elevated ANA result, rather than being a result of an elevated ANA condition. But of course that's pure speculation, because there are no research data to either verify or disprove that theory. The main point is, as far as I am aware, there is no known way that an elevated ANA condition can cause an elevated IgA response to certain foods in the diet.
I'll leave the suggestions for foods to consider to others who have more experience in adding foods to their diet. Personally, I find that the simpler my diet, the better I do, By avoiding diversity, I minimize my risk of having a flare, and that's my main goal.
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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Zoey,
It seems a bit overwhelming at first, but these results give great insight into what is causing inflammation.
Figuring out a safe eating plan can be stressful, but once you get onto the right eating plan, wellness will happen.
I would be cautious about eggs given your results. Some that react to chicken eggs, have done ok with duck eggs. And there are quite a few substitution options for eggs in cooking. And there are quite a few egg free recipes in the Dee's kitchen area of the forum.
If you want to minimise inflammation, and damage to your gut (which can lead to a multitude of other health issues) avoid all the things you tested above 10.
With the high gluten result, I would suggest you be super careful about contimination when sharing a kitchen with others or eating out....
Hang in there... There are many with similar results...yes it is disappointing to give certain foods but wellness is worth the changes...
It seems a bit overwhelming at first, but these results give great insight into what is causing inflammation.
Figuring out a safe eating plan can be stressful, but once you get onto the right eating plan, wellness will happen.
I would be cautious about eggs given your results. Some that react to chicken eggs, have done ok with duck eggs. And there are quite a few substitution options for eggs in cooking. And there are quite a few egg free recipes in the Dee's kitchen area of the forum.
If you want to minimise inflammation, and damage to your gut (which can lead to a multitude of other health issues) avoid all the things you tested above 10.
With the high gluten result, I would suggest you be super careful about contimination when sharing a kitchen with others or eating out....
Hang in there... There are many with similar results...yes it is disappointing to give certain foods but wellness is worth the changes...
Gabes Ryan
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
Zoey,
I reacted to all foods on Enterolab testing, and remember being overwhelmed by the question.....What am I going to eat?
I ate game meat (venison, elk), lamb, organic turkey, haddock/cod for my protein. Protein is important for healing!
I ate only over cooked veggies like squashes, carrots, green beans.
I used coconut flour to make eggless biscuits, and seed butter. That's all I ate for a very long time, and it worked.
I still eat very small meals. You need the energy, so eat at least 5 smaller meals a day. This gives your digestive tract an easier time of digesting.
I hope this helps!
I reacted to all foods on Enterolab testing, and remember being overwhelmed by the question.....What am I going to eat?
I ate game meat (venison, elk), lamb, organic turkey, haddock/cod for my protein. Protein is important for healing!
I ate only over cooked veggies like squashes, carrots, green beans.
I used coconut flour to make eggless biscuits, and seed butter. That's all I ate for a very long time, and it worked.
I still eat very small meals. You need the energy, so eat at least 5 smaller meals a day. This gives your digestive tract an easier time of digesting.
I hope this helps!
Linda :)
LC Oct. 2012
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