Food Intolerance Test That Answers Many Digestion Problems
Do you find that you feel ill after eating? Do you avoid social settings and restaurants because you dont know what, when or where you might have unplesant effects from food? You are certainly not alone in your concerns. A food intolerance, similar to an allergy but not as powerful, might be the reason for your discomfort.
Food is broken down in the body with differing enzimes. Without them, your body would develop a food intollerance. With intolerances, the food might not cause a reaction in your body for some time. Because the reaciton can be delayed, it is often difficult to find the food for which a body has developed an intollerance.
Some usual intolerances - some of which you may already have heard of before - are lactose intolerance (i.e. the inability to process dairy products) and gluten intolerance (i.e. the inability to process wheat products or gluten). However, there are more types of intolerance than these, and most of them will produce unpleasant symptoms.
Fatigue, pain, diarrhea, constipation, irritable bowl syndrome, and other gastro-intestinal problems are some of the symptoms of food intolerances. The easiest way to avoid these symptoms is to take a food intolerance test to discover which foods you are intolerant of, and then avoid these foods.
The elisa (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) food test is a common food intolerance test, which involves having blood collected-usually from the fingertip-either at home or in a doctor's office. A lab then analyzes this sample for reactions with certain foods. A strong reaction will cause many IgG antibodies to be present in the blood; the more antibodies there are, the stronger the reaction will be.
Results of food intolerance tests are able to reveal how much was produced, and from which foods it resulted. Different providers use different scales, however they all measure the same thing basically: the production of antibodies. It should be clear which foods - if any - are the cause of intolerance reactions. Studied did show that this kind of test is particularly effective in finding out the source.
There are several things that can be done if you find you have food intolerance. The first step to take is to remove the problem food from your diet. Removing the food from your diet can be an easy or difficult step depending on the nature of the food. Manufactures are now making substitute for some common intolerances, such as those with reactions to dairy products. Other intolerances can be avoided by carefully reading the manufactures label for the list of ingredients. Depending on the severity of your symptoms, a few minutes spent reading a label can be worth the time spent.
When you experience digestive problems, such as fatigue, diarrhea, constipation, flatulence, or irritable bowel syndrome, you may often mistakenly think you have a food allergy. However, the problem may be food intolerance. A food intolerance test will help you determine if this is the case. Frequently doctors will use the ELISA food test (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), in which they will take a blood sample and analyze it to test for reactions to certain foods. If you are diagnosed as having food intolerance, the best way to avoid the symptoms is to avoid consuming the food which causes it.
Published March 27th, 2007
