First post and need help with enterolab test results.

[Lattelaura]

Hi All,

Been a member since January 20 this year. So fortunate to find this site and all you wonderful people. I was diagnosed with LC. Started symptoms in November last year and was diagnosed in January. I have been studying all the post and the diet suggestion and have been following the Phase One diet. I also read Tex's book.
I am on Budesonide. I am doing better. I have lost about 10 lbs. I was a light wieght to start and now look like a skinny runt and have quiet a bit of fatigue. These are my test results and would like some help with what to do with them. I do have other autoimmune issues and have been trying to figure out a cough and congestion I have had for years. Did a blood test at US BioTk in 2015, and have been off dairy since. Wondering about beef as i just am getting 1/4 of a beef from a friend who raises his own that are pastured raised and pampered.

This is my first post.


Comprehensive Gluten/Antigenic Food Sensitivity Stool Panel

Quantitative Microscopic Fecal Fat Score 699 Units (Normal Range is less than 300 Units)

Fecal Anti-gliadin IgA 23 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 8 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Fecal Anti-soy IgA 9 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Mean Value 11 Antigenic Foods 10 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:
Rice
Almond
Walnut
Cashew
White potato

Food to which there was some immunological reactivity (1+):
Oat
Corn
Tuna
Chicken
Beef
Pork
Food to which there was moderate immunological reactivity (2+):None

Food to which there was significant and/or the most immunological reactivity (3+):None




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: Corn

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: Beef
Meat toward which you displayed the least immunologic reactivity: Pork

[tex]

Hi Laura,

Welcome to the group. Wow! Your fecal fat score is pretty high — you might be a celiac (in addition to having MC). At any rate, it suggests that you have been sensitive to gluten for quote a while. The level of your other results is consistent with celiac disease, also. Of course even if you do have celiac disease, that's irrelevant, because controlling celiac disease is a walk in the park compared with controlling MC.

Looking at your results, you definitely need to avoid gluten and all dairy products, but (lucky you) eggs and soy should be safe.

An overall score of 10 on the 11 other antigenic foods test means that you probably don't have to be concerned about most of those foods — they should be safe. Except for the oats — most of the rest of us also react to oats.

Again, welcome aboard, and please feel free to ask anything.

Tex

[brandy]

You should be ok with the grass fed beef being it is in the +1 category. Some folks have problems with beef early on causing headaches etc but then are ok with beef a little later. You might not want to have beef 3 times a day, i.e. you might consider adding turkey into the mix or some other proteins into the mix.

[Lattelaura]

Thanks for the responses. The GI doctor did do a blood test for Celiac

[Lattelaura]

Thanks for the reply's. The GI doctor did check for celiac with a blood test. I wonder? I also wonder if i can get rid of my cough and congestion with these diet changes? It's great to have the Budesonide working for me, but I'm so afraid of what happens when I go off. I worry about my Calcium intake, I do have some osteoporosis. I hear Budesonide can deplete the Calcium. I have been taking Magnesium and D.

[tex]

The celiac blood test has relatively low sensitivity. There is a good chance that it missed your celiac disease if you do have it.

Untreated gluten sensitivity is the primary cause of osteoporosis. The budesonide doesn't become activated until it is way down in the lower part of the intestines so very little of it is absorbed into the bloodstream. Therefore it can only have a very minor effect on osteoporosis. Compared with untreated gluten sensitivity, it has a very minor effect.

There is plenty of calcium in everyone's diet. We just have to take enough vitamin D to be able to absorb the calcium in our food, and enough magnesium to activate our insulin to transport the magnesium to the cells where it is needed.

Tex

[JAB]

Is this what the C1 is testing? Or which test is this?

[tex]

This was the A1 and the C1 Panels.

Tex