An informal survey

[Giselle]

Hi again, it is a blood test that shows how your system reacts to particular foods - but the reaction is an immune response - whether your body creates antibodies to certain foods. My son, who tested negative on the scratch test for most everything food related, showed reaction to wheat/gluten, soy, corn, dairy, citrus, bananas, tomatos, and a few other things - this was astonishing to me because he didn't have what I thought were allergic reactions. I had already tried a food elimination diet, avoiding dairy and gluten (as I'd read these were huge for many people) and saw no improvement - but when the test came back I knew why I'd seen no positve results - each product that I had eliminated that was wheat I'd substituted a corn product - and here he was allergic to both! When I finally got all his allergens eliminated we saw such a huge difference. As his immune system no longer had to fight his food as though it were a flu or worse he improved sooooo much. I won't kid you, it's not easy as our culture is so gluten and especially corn ridden - I have to read everything, choose carefully and make much of my own but what got me motivated was the actual test itself. It tests your IMMUNE response to foods - his poor body was fighting gluten or citrus, etc. as though he was fighting an illness! What stress we feel when we are fighting an illness and here he was fighting something all the time and didn't really know it because he'd been doing it all his life and didn't know the difference. I've seen this also in myself. Because it was so hard getting it all started (it's easy now and part of life) I had to adopt his diet to remind myself what he could eat. Turns out that wow that stuffiness I have ALWAYS had upon waking in the morning went away! I had had lunch with a girlfriend one afternoon and as my son wasn't around I had a large latte. The next morning I was so stuffed up I thought I had a cold. I didn't connect the two (too busy and a bit silly) but it happened a couple of other times (I love dairy and would always have it when not around my son) and I finally figured out that I probably shouldn't be having the stuff. I do occasionally now but I know I'm going to pay. It wasn't just the stuffiness, I actually don't feel so great - not horrible but enough that it pegs me down a bit. And he was fighting this type of thing all the time. Anyway, eliminating all of them really helped out with his tics and his health in general - I guess it decreased the stress load on his body.

 

I don't think a lot of regular allergists do this test (although they should) and it was recommended by our DAN doctor (Defeat Autism Now) who follows the DAN protocol (finding allergies, deficencies, heavy metals). I highly recommend it.

 

Good luck,

Giselle