Re: Re: Too Much Inflamation - IgE, IgA, IgM differences for mold sensitivity

[Guest guest]

At 02:57 PM 4/18/2009, you wrote:

>Thanks ,

>

>Our neurologist admittedly doesn't feel she has the expertise to

>correlate mold exposure with neurological symptoms so, I will take

>your advice and see where else we can look. Interesting though is

>that she confided to me that her daughter had problems with allergic

>mold reactions due to lving in a moldy dorm room at college!

For sure, I know for a fact, that mold allergy and mold sensitivity

and mold hypersensitivity

are far different things. Very different. Symptoms are vastly

difference. Allergy is IgE

mediate, and the symptoms are running nose and eyes, and that's about it.

An IgE cell blood count, done with a special stain, under a

microscope, with a grid pattern

to enable the density count, helps to eliminate allergy as the cause.

Mold sensitivity can include those, and many more.

Hypersensitivity is IgA and IgM mediated, does not include running nose.

The ratio of IgA to IgM cells in the blood can determine where on the

recovery or exposure one is. IgA increases immediately, and then several

days later IgM increases, while IgA goes down (I may have those backwards).

The test was developed here in Los Angeles, by an immune expert, and costs

$1,000 per test. It's new (well, 6-8 years old now), and not offered by many

labs. They have an extensive web site, good reading.

[Guest guest]

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I'd be interested in a link for that lab and thanks for these insights.

Sam

For sure, I know for a fact, that mold allergy and mold sensitivity

and mold hypersensitivity

are far different things. Very different. Symptoms are vastly

difference. Allergy is IgE

mediate, and the symptoms are running nose and eyes, and that's about it.

[Guest guest]

At 09:55 AM 4/20/2009, you wrote:

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>I'd be interested in a link for that lab and thanks for these insights.

http://immunoscienceslab.com/ but their site is down right now, so

I can not confirm this is the right URL, but google thinks it is.

Ok, I checked the www.archive.org and it's the right URL.

You can visit a few pages here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070108031810/http://immunoscienceslab.com/

and see they have extensive immune tests, many not available any where

else as this lab invented them in the last few years.

Let us know what you find out.