Food Intolerance Testing

What is Food Sensitivity?

At Healing Advanced Solutions, we offer diagnoses and treatment of food allergies and sensitivities. These are some of the most common complaints that we come across in our daily practice.

It is the response of the body that distinguishes between a food allergy and sensitivity. When you have a food allergy, your immune system reacts. While it is the digestive tract that causes a reaction if you have food sensitivity or intolerance.

What Triggers Food Sensitivities?

A number of different food items can cause intolerance in the digestive tract. This occurs when your body is unable to properly break the food item down or when it reacts to a compound present in it. Lactose intolerance, for example, occurs when your body is unable to break down lactose, a sugar found in dairy products.

You may be sensitive or intolerant to a food product for multiple reasons. These include:

  • A lack of the enzymes required to digest a specific food product.
  • Adverse reaction to food additives or preservatives such as sulfites, MSG, or artificial colors.
  • Sensitivity to sugars or other components that are naturally present in food.
  • Pharmacological factors, such as caffeine sensitivity or other chemical sensitivity.
 

The symptoms of food sensitivity differ. However, the symptoms of intolerance are all gastrointestinal in nature. These are some examples:

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Food Sensitivity/Food Intolerance Testing

  1. Trial and Error Testing
    The majority of food intolerances are discovered by trial and error to determine which food or foods cause symptoms. You may be advised to keep a food diary in which you record what you eat and when you experience symptoms so those common variables can be identified. For example, after tracking what a patient eats every day for a month, we could discover that he only had symptoms on days when he ate cheese. This would point to cheese as a likely source of the problem.

  2. Elimination Diet
    An elimination diet is another method for determining food sensitivity. We start by removing all suspected foods from your diet until you are symptom-free. The foods are then reintroduced one at a time. This can assist you in determining which foods are causing your symptoms.

  3. IgG Testing

    With IgG testing a blood sample is used to measure the antibodies associated with 87 commonly consumed foods, using these results we can precisely determine the foods that need to be eliminated from your diet.

Treatment of Food Allergies and Sensitivities

Treatment is based on avoiding or limiting your consumption of problematic foods. By doing so we can give the gut time to heal the epithelial tissue. Furthermore, weight loss can be aided by dietary changes and the avoidance of allergens. Inflammation can also be reduced and digestion and absorption can be enhanced by addressing food allergies and sensitivities. This can improve the problems with your enzyme function and help alleviate gut problems like diarrhea and constipation. 

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