Re: Re: ELISA food allergy test

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I would tend to agree with that. Cutting out eggs, when they don't seem to affect me, would mean cutting out so many parts of the diet, like those yummy banana pancakes! DarleneIntestinal DysbiosisSCD 15 days

To: BTVC-SCD Sent: Fri, March 5, 2010 11:40:12 PMSubject: Re: ELISA food allergy test

I can give you my experience. After a visit to the ER after ingesting a tiny bit of cashew butter for the first time, I had both blood tests and scratch tests for nuts. I was allergic to everything, even the pecan and almond butter I'd been eating with no problems. So, I just avoid cashews, as well as the nuts that tested as high as the cashews (walnuts, pistachios, & hazelnuts. I've kept eating the almond butter and pecan butter (in moderation, the equivalent of 2 - 3 tbsps per day). So far, so good *knock on wood*. Since the eggs don't seem to bother you, I would probably keep eating them, just not in mass quantities.HollyCrohn'sSCD 12/01/08>> Something I've been wondering about...I had this allergy test done last

year and it showed a significant sensitivity to eggs. Before I started SCD I read this on the BTVC website regarding allergies:> > "Most people such as you find that introducing the introductory diet for a few days and then gradually gaining confidence that certain foods should be added, find that they are getting better eating the very foods to which they were supposed to be allergic."> >

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Steve,

I totally avoided eggs for a long time, probably almost a year. I introduced them again now on SCD and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. DarleneIntestinal DysbiosisSCD 16 days

To: BTVC-SCD Sent: Sun, March 7, 2010 3:21:25 PMSubject: Re: ELISA food allergy test

DarleneI know quite a bit about this. It is quite hotly debated but many doctors and practitioners are sure that food intolerance testing is not very accurate at all. Sometimes it can be used as a starting point but the gold standard to decide if you have a food intolerance is to do a food elimination diet for 2 weeks. This is quite involved but can be very useful.However, if you wanted to know if you can eat eggs then you could leave them out of your diet completely for 2 weeks. If you felt better then you should reintroduce them and if you became worse then of course eggs are a problem.It is possible to become tolerant again to 'bad' foods after a period of time. This is done by not eating them at all for a long period and then to slowly reintroduce them little by little in order to check for a reaction again.SteveSCD 18/12/10 > >> > Something I've been wondering about...I had this allergy test done last year and it showed a significant sensitivity to eggs. Before I started SCD I read this on the BTVC website regarding allergies:> > > > "Most people such as you find that introducing the introductory diet for a few

days and then gradually gaining confidence that certain foods should be added, find that they are getting better eating the very foods to which they were supposed to be allergic."> > > > > > > > ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _> Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! > > http://www.flickr. com/gift/>

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Start with egg yolks - turns out most people react to the whites.

Mara

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> What sort of symptoms did you originally have when eating eggs? And how did

you reintroduce them into your diet? How many are you eating, and how are you

preparing them?

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> I've been egg-free since one month in on SCD, when I finally figured out that

the persistent d I had every morning after breakfast resulted from my morning

eggs. I'm ready to introduce them back in, but get a little worried about a

reaction. I think I've seen someone here say to start with them in baked goods

first, and work my way up. I'm just so ready for new tastes.

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