Enterolab Results Interpretation

[ashleyw]

Here are the results of my Enterolab test. Feel free to post these on the results page.

Quantitative Microscopic Fecal Fat Score Less than 300 Units (Normal Range is less than 300 Units)
Fecal Anti-gliadin IgA 102 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)
Fecal Anti-casein (cow’s milk) IgA 18 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)
Fecal Anti-ovalbumin (chicken egg) IgA 33 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)
Fecal Anti-soy IgA 13 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)

Mean Value 11 Antigenic Foods 13 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)
0: Beef, Pork
1+: Corn, Rice, Tuna, Chicken, Walnut, Almond, Cashew, White Potato
2+: Oat
3+: None

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

Meat toward which you displayed the most immunologic reactivity: Tuna
Meat toward which you were next most immunologically reactive: Chicken

Nut toward which you displayed the most immunologic reactivity: Walnut
Nut toward which you displayed intermediate immunologic reactivity: Almond
Nut toward which you displayed the least immunologic reactivity: Cashew


Any thoughts on these results would be appreciated. My take is that I need to eliminate gluten, casein, eggs, soy, and oats. What about the 1+ foods? Are they safe in moderation? Are they listed in order of most to least reactive? Chicken is the one food in that category that I am most curious about.

Should grass fed butter and ghee also be eliminated?

I’m curious about tuna. I do not like tuna and therefore have not eaten it in several years, except for a few bites maybe about a year or two ago. I’m not understanding how I could have antibodies in my system when I don’t eat it.

Thank you for your help! I recently finished reading Tex’s book which has helped me understand a lot more, but I still feel like I have so much to learn!

[tex]

Hi Ashley,

You are right on target with the foods you need to totally avoid. Yes, the 1+ foods can be eaten in moderation. The best policy is to eat them on a rotational basis, IOW, if you eat a given food one day, skip two days before eating it again. If you find that one of those foods bothers you, then it's best to avoid it — at least until after you're in remission and you've accrued a significant amount of healing. I believe they are listed (at least in your case) in the order of (probable) relative reactivity. That is, all 2+ foods would be more of a problem than all 1+ foods, and within the 1+ category, the foods listed first would probably be more reactive than the foods listed last, in the respective order in which they are listed (but I suspect this is just coincidence in your case).

Butter is loaded with casein, and ghee contains small amounts. So you need to avoid butter and probably ghee (at least while recovering). A few of us are able to tolerate ghee, but many of us react to it.

Regarding your tuna results, our immune systems can produce antibodies to proteins to which we react for several years. Any exposure (no matter how small) is like a booster shot. IOW, it triggers renewed antibody production, which then has to slowly decay again before ceasing. Exposure to gluten creates anti-gliadin antibodies which last much longer than virtually all other antibodies.

I hope this helps.

Thanks, I've added these to the other results.

Tex