Re: ELISA food allergy test

[Guest guest]

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.

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

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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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> From the LI listserve

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> I have found in pre-SCD days that avoiding the foods on my allergy list helped

me nothing except that milk made me feel bloated so I didn't have any dairy. In

reading the above from the Listserve I decided to go ahead and consume eggs,

believing that it wasn't my allergies making me sick, it was first of all the

imbalance of microorganisms in the gut. I've been eating eggs right from the

start and never feel a direct upset from it. I can tell when something really

bothers me like nut flour. Within an hour or two I have digestive upset. Am I

safe to assume that I can continue eating eggs and that any sensitivity I may

have will work itself out after some time on SCD?

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> Darlene

> Intestinal Dysbiosis

> SCD 2 weeks

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[Guest guest]

Except for those of us who are the other way around! (But I seem OK

with eggs now as I approach 8 months. Didn't try them til about two weeks

ago)

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

whites.

Mara