What Test Do I Need To Ask For?

[VydorScope]

Okay I am about ready to give up and bash my head against the wall. I have discovered that many of my medications have milk in them in some form, so even thoguh I have tried dariyfree in the past I was fooling my self since I was constantly get dairy. I guess I did not take it sresiulsy enough at the time, cuase I just noticed that the NON DARIY creamer that I sometimes use (its flavored, helps cheap coffee that I get sometimes when out) has Cassien (a milk protein) in it, my Zyrtec has Lactose in it, and so on. I just want to get better, is that so much to ask????? I already gave up all gluten, what esle do I have to lose?

So I want to get my doc to order some blood test for food alergies/intlorences. What do I ask for, and do I need to keep posining my self until test is done? I do not want to just test for milk, I want to test for ever dang food possible! I have already tired the scrtach test and they faild to find anything at all. I am realy fed up with being sick.

[Carriefaith]

I got one blood test, that tested for allergies to about 30 different foods. I don't remember the name of it though. Hopefully your doctor will know which one it is. I think that you can also get a test for food intolerances.

[StrongerToday]

I took a blood test ordered by my dr. and sent to Great Smokies lab. I too was so frustrated and I wanted to know *right now* what foods I should avoid. I was lucky my insurance picked up half the bill, but it was still expensive. And all it showed was a very low tolerence to casein, milk, egg yolk, peanuts and a low tolerence to lima beans. (No reaction to wheat, oats, barley...) Both my dr. and dietitician said they had never seen a test come back so low, usually these tests show a lot of different food sensitivites.

Both my dr. and dietician encourage me to test one food at a time, slowly - over a four day period and be sure to not add anything else new during those four days.

I wish I would have listened to them and saved myself some money, that paper is practically worthless to me. I do understand your wanting to know, but like a lot of people on this forum have said - trust your body! Look into elimination diets, that might prove more reliable in the long run.

I do think they can do an official lactose test in a local lab, but the food sensitivity testing needs to be done by an outside specialty lab - there are lots of postings for Entrolab, York, Great Smokies....

Good luck in your quest!

[Guest nini]

I've got my copy of the lab report for food allergies and intolerances in front of me and it was basically useless as everything came in in range or normal... including wheat

the code numbers look like 10715SB

3489SB

273SBX

and it all looks like it was looking for IGE mediated response if that helps...