Food sensitivity testing - worth it?
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Posted 6/15/2018 3:58 PM (GMT 0)
Has anyone learned anything useful from having food sensitivity testing done? I've heard of a lot of people testing negative for celiac/wheat allergies but greatly benefiting from a gluten-free diet. I realize that many of us have serious "sensitivity" to foods that we are not "allergic" to. So I understand why these types of tests are often so unreliable/uninformative. But has anyone had success with them or learned anything useful? Similarly, has anyone tried it and found it to be a waste? Thanks for your input!
P.S. Tangential to the wheat allergies.... I recently (past year or two) decided to stop drinking beer. I never drank a lot of it (I'm pretty tips after one), but I found that beer made me feel all kinds of terrible, even after just a few sips. It might be placebo at this point, but I think it makes me feel dizzy and crampy. At first I thought it was all alcohol, but gin doesn't seem to bother me at all. Anyone else have this or other issues specifically with beer?
MarkWithIBD
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Posted 6/16/2018 2:25 AM (GMT 0)
In my first year of UC I went to a naturopath and got allergy testing done. It set me back about $800 and gave me a lot of useful information. I started avoiding the foods on the list. The next year when I had another low grade flare, the safe foods seemed to be causing irritation, and I found another naturopath who had a cheaper test, but the test showed different allergies.
I did a lot of research and found out that because of leaky gut, our allergies can always be changing. You avoid the reactive foods but then can become reactive to the safe foods.
There are some foods I always avoid like gluten, dairy, soy and corn no matter what, but I think with other stuff it varies a lot. I wish I knew this before I invested so much money in testing. It's not that the tests are wrong I just think leaky gut makes the test results very temporary!
Bebopgeo
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Joined : Jun 2018
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Posted 6/16/2018 11:11 AM (GMT 0)
I have ulcerative colitis and I use to have to use the toilet ten to twelve times a day and each time there was blood and I was taking the maximum medicating but now I only have to use the toilet one's or twice a day and there is no blood and I don't take any medicating. what was coursing me to bleed is sugar in my diet. the more I cut back on food with sugar in them the better I got. it took me quite a while to figure that out some times I wood stop bleeding wright away and some times it wood take me a few weeks to stop. I have going back to eating most foods but not the ones with sugar in them. I eat less then the dally value% of sugar and if I cut back on all sugar my UC problem wood go away. but when I cut back on sugar I lost weight fast and I had a hard time keeping a good body weight.