Food IgG Panel results

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Hi all,

Apologies ahead of time - this is LONG. I'm overwhelmed right now.

We just got my DS's IgG test results back today. He reacted to 28

different foods as " positive " for food " allergy. " Basically,

confirmed my suspicion of leaky gut. (and despite my supplementing him

with probiotics, there's apparently no colonization because his stool

cultures were negative - no good bacteria - but thankfully no bad

bacteria either!)

One thing that I am not surprised by, but am disappointed in (because

it is going to be so much work) is that he is highly reactive to

gluten containing foods [wheat +3, rye +2, barely +2, oat +2 (not sure

if this is because we don't use gluten-free oats or if it's because he

has an issue with oat)]. The worst part is that he is also reactive

to rice (+1)and corn (+1) which are two of the easy gluten-free

alternatives...(also had a score of 85 on the gliaden test, with

anything over 30 being a strongly positive reaction).

She reiterated that many of her patients see dramatic improvement with

constipation by just going GF/CF. We've been CF for a while, but have

been dreading the GF. Easing up on gluten did seem to help some, but

I'll let you all know if there's drastic improvement with eliminating

gluten. At least with test results I can (hopefully) get DH on board.

I have two questions & hope for input:

1) Our doc suggested we avoid all reactive foods for a year, but

could do rotation with the +1 foods if needed. I wonder, though,

if anyone else has done this IgG panel and if they have any comment on

the relevance of the +1 foods....Do we stand a better chance of

healing his leaky gut if we do totally avoid all 28 foods stringently

or will rotating the +1's not alter the chances of healing the gut?

2) Doc recommended a bovine (cow) immunoglobulin supplement to help

with the leaky gut. I am not a fan of the idea of giving him bovine

immunoglobulin. Stick with me (if you're still reading) - some swear

that raw cow's milk healed their leaky gut. If purified bovine

immunoglobin supplements are helping with healing leaky guts, then

perhaps this is one of the components of raw milk that helps heal

leaky guts. We know that human breast milk has tons of immunoglobins

and immune factors. So, shouldn't human breast milk (a 'raw' milk) be

effective as well? Since I'm still BF'ing my 1 year old, I could pump

and and try giving my 3 yr old breast milk - wouldn't this have the

same effect (or better) as raw cow's milk? Has anyone heard of making

yogurt with human breastmilk? If I can get probiotics into him in

breastmilk yogurt, I'd be getting two supp's in at once..... Am I crazy?

Please don't think I'm totally insane - I just want to heal his gut

and thought if I can do it with the help of my breastmilk instead of

another supplement, all the better....

THANK YOU for " listening " and for any thoughts/comments.

Best,

p.s. - She recommends fermented veggies and cocobiotic (body ecology).

He's reactive (+1) to coconut, so I'm not sure if we'll try

cocobiotic, but I've read great things about it at another board. I

have long been considering making my own fermented veggies - so now I

have the motivation to give it a try - just need to learn how -

anybody doing this already?

p.p.s. - surprised to find they couldn't culture yeast from his stool,

but I still feel strongly that he has yeast symptoms (even the doc

confirmed at our first appointment that the rash and pimples on his

bottom are typically tell-tale signs of yeast). any thoughts?