Re: ELISA food allergy test

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Darlene

I 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.

Steve

SCD 18/12/10

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> > 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:

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> > " 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, you are my new favorite person. How I longed to believe this!

I miss poultry, almonds, eggs, asparagus, tomatoes, etc.

BTVC-SCD , " Steve " wrote:

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> Darlene

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> I 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.

>

> Steve

> SCD 18/12/10

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> > >

> > > 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!

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> > http://www.flickr.com/gift/

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[Guest guest]

Darlene,

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?

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.

Thanks!!

Ellen

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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.

>  Darlene

> Intestinal Dysbiosis

> SCD 16 days