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I'm having trouble getting my food allergies to show up on my profile. What am I doing wrong. I noticed some of you have your picture on your messages. Are there any instruction on the web site that tell me how to do that?
Keep on smiling!
There appears to be a glitch in the code concerning adding food allergies to a profile. I can add them in the admin control panel, but not in the regular "Profile" link, (even for my own profile). It's probably a matter of incorrect sequencing in a data base query which retrieves that information. I'll see if I can track down that glitch when I have some spare time. If you will tell me what you want to list, I can add the info in the admin control panel - that way you won't have to wait for me to find the error in the code.
Here's how to add avatars:
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=173
It's good to see you posting. Welcome aboard.
Tex
Here's how to add avatars:
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=173
It's good to see you posting. Welcome aboard.
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.
Food Allergy Input
Gluten (as far as I know) How confident are you that the results from EnteroLab are accurate?
Keep on smiling!
To my knowledge, no one who has been tested there has ever had any reason to dispute their test results. If you read any of the celiac boards, you will see that many, many people there have also been tested by Enterolab, and they have found the results to be accurate. By comparison, both here and on the celiac boards, you will find that many people are totally dissatisfied with the results of tests done at their doctors offices, when using the classic celiac blood tests.
Several years after Dr. Fine developed the testing program used at Enterolab, a lab in Italy independently explored a similar procedure, and verified the validity of the theory behind the stool testing procedure used at Enterolab. Here's a report on that research project:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11808976
Actually, when you think about it, it's sort of a no-brainer. If the food intolerance reaction is going on in the intestines, why would anyone expect a blood test to be the best way to detect antibodies? The blood test is used because it is fast, simple, and easier to do, but that certainly doesn't imply that it is the best way to go about it. For the antibodies to get into the blood stream, they have to pass through the tight junctions in the mucosal walls of the intestines. That means that the antibodies will never be as numerous in the blood as they are in the stool.
In fact, once a celiac cuts all gluten out of her or his diet, after a few weeks have passed, a blood test will usually no longer be able to detect gluten antibodies, nor antiendomysial antibodies, at a reliable level. By contrast, a stool test can detect those antibodies for up to a year after gluten is withdrawn from the diet. The two testing methods are virtually light years apart, in terms of sensitivity, and reliability. Unfortunately, though, most doctors haven't upgraded their out-of-date medical school training, and stool tests aren't even on their radar.
Tex
Several years after Dr. Fine developed the testing program used at Enterolab, a lab in Italy independently explored a similar procedure, and verified the validity of the theory behind the stool testing procedure used at Enterolab. Here's a report on that research project:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11808976
Actually, when you think about it, it's sort of a no-brainer. If the food intolerance reaction is going on in the intestines, why would anyone expect a blood test to be the best way to detect antibodies? The blood test is used because it is fast, simple, and easier to do, but that certainly doesn't imply that it is the best way to go about it. For the antibodies to get into the blood stream, they have to pass through the tight junctions in the mucosal walls of the intestines. That means that the antibodies will never be as numerous in the blood as they are in the stool.
In fact, once a celiac cuts all gluten out of her or his diet, after a few weeks have passed, a blood test will usually no longer be able to detect gluten antibodies, nor antiendomysial antibodies, at a reliable level. By contrast, a stool test can detect those antibodies for up to a year after gluten is withdrawn from the diet. The two testing methods are virtually light years apart, in terms of sensitivity, and reliability. Unfortunately, though, most doctors haven't upgraded their out-of-date medical school training, and stool tests aren't even on their radar.
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.