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[kim]

My sons also have tics and we recently had IGg testing done through MAYO

labs. As I understand it, they send this testing on to IBT labs. I spoke with

someone at MAYO who said this is Flouroenzyme Immunoassay testing. I'm

wondering if anyone can comment on the reliability of this type testing? My

insurance covered this test so I went for it, but my Pediatrician is unable to help

with the results, as he had no idea what it even was.

 

13 year old son tested positive to wheat, barley, rye,oat

9 yr. old egg, peanut and pork.

 

Under reference range, there was only <2. Most of the results were 5 and

6's except 9 yr. old who is an extremely limited eater had a 13 for peanut

(peanut butter is one of about 4 foods he'll eat).

 

I also had the Organix Dysbiosis Profile done on youngest son through

Metametrix. His D-Arabinitol was 51 which put him in about the 75% range? I take

it this means that 75% of the children 12 and under had a lower reading?

Again, I'm wondering how many people have used this test and if you felt the

results were reliable as an indication of a yeast problem. Any comments would

be greatly appreciated.

 

Kim

Reply.........(from another parent)

Dear Kim,

 

The amazing fact is that the body is "believing" that the food is

something bad. When there is a bad digestion process, food molecules

are not well broken (hydrolyzed) and due mainly to its size, the body

can not see those molecules as food but as an bad invader (antigen).

 

Once those big and bad food molecules enters to the body through the

intestinal wall, the body defense mechanism is to put a "flag" on them

in order to indicate to defense cells (leukocytes) that those

molecules shall be destroy.

 

The "flag" to signal the invader molecules is the Antibody called IgG

Immunoglobulin G. So if your test is indicating that you have more

than 2, it means that recently the body has detected some invader

molecules and is having a "lot of flags" circulating around ready to

bind another invader big molecule.

 

IgG test basically means that some of the food molecules that gives

high values were detected in the blood and are being processes as

antigens. So for example, in the case of peanut high value, it

indicates that the body is "processing" the peanut by using the immune

system. Sometimes the body mechanism is to use the enzymes of the

immune system to end digestion of big molecules. It seems to be the

indication of this high value. This is bad because those enzymes are

there for eliminating bacteria, yeasts, virus and bad cells, not for

doing digestion.

 

Oral enzymes are going to help you for two basic points:

 

- Improve hydrolysis of food molecules, in the way the body will not

recognize them as antigen.

 

- Reduce the high values of circulating antibodies.

 

Regards,

 

VICTOR

 

 

> Victor,

>

> Thank you so much for the reply. The high reading for peanut gave

this test

> credibility in my mind because it's one of the things conventional

allergy

> testing showed a mild reaction to, and again, because it's one of

the few

> foods he eats. The pork reaction confused me, because he hasn't

eaten any meat

> of any kind since baby food dinners. I can't imagine where he

would even get

> trace exposure to pork.

>

> One of my main concerns was that this test would miss a sensitivity

to

> something like dairy or wheat (he will eat 1 type of cracker and

pretzels), orange

> juice etc. I would hate to feel ok about giving these things if

this test

> was not as reliable as ELISA or other tests it seems like most have

done.

>

> I was wondering if I could have your permission to post your reply

to

> another group? Since this was a test that my insurance covered, and

I was able to

> get reg. Ped to order it, I thought others on a TS/tic board might

be

> interested too. Again, thank you!

>

> Kim

REPLY

 

Kim,

 

Thanks for your answer. Maybe you do not have to analyze the lab

results in such detailed way. Because, what the antibody flags is

sometimes not so easy to catch. Antibody is very small and can just

bind very small parts on a food molecule. For example it can happens

that as your kid is not eaten meat, then the antibody was confusing

the pork meat because it is having the same molecule part that it

binds elsewere.

 

Anyway, by looking the results what is evident is a framework of

general bad nutrition in which the body is sensing several foods as

antigens (fortunatelly not as allergens). It can be more like a

diagnosis of leaky gut.

 

If you start with enzymes, you will eliminate the bad framework, the

leaky gut and the running antibodies. You can place my message in

other places.

 

Regards,

 

VICTOR