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Red Reactive:
Buckwheat, hazelnut, leek, maple, pear, vanilla, wheat
Yellow Reactive:
Almond, apple, broccoli, carrot, cheddar, chicken, cola nut, cows milk, cranberry, cumin, egg, fd&c red #3, honey, mint, mushroom, peach, pork, scallop, sweet potato, turmeric, walnut, watermelon.
I'm pretty overwhelmed but, I'm going to start looking thru the packet that came with the results and go from there!
Jenny
MRT Results
Moderators: Rosie, Stanz, Jean, CAMary, moremuscle, JFR, Dee, xet, Peggy, Matthew, Gabes-Apg, grannyh, Gloria, Mars, starfire, Polly, Joefnh
Jenny,
I'll bet there were some "high greens" - have to watch out for those as well. Are you working with a dietitian?
Good luck with Phase 1 - look forward to hearing about your progress.
Mary Beth
I'll bet there were some "high greens" - have to watch out for those as well. Are you working with a dietitian?
Good luck with Phase 1 - look forward to hearing about your progress.
Mary Beth
"If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles." - Dr. Wayne Dyer
Jenny,
It's interesting that you were red reactive for wheat and yellow reactive for cow's milk and eggs. I don't think that many of us have tested reactive on the MRT to those the standard foods tested via Enterolab.
Yellow reactive to chicken and pork - that's probably a surprise for you. I was highly reactive to chicken and was very surprised. Several of us members have tested or determined that we are reactive to chicken. We might have to rethink the elimination diet, which recommends chicken and rice as basic foods.
The good news is that you now have a pretty good road map to follow so that you can achieve remission.
Gloria
It's interesting that you were red reactive for wheat and yellow reactive for cow's milk and eggs. I don't think that many of us have tested reactive on the MRT to those the standard foods tested via Enterolab.
Yellow reactive to chicken and pork - that's probably a surprise for you. I was highly reactive to chicken and was very surprised. Several of us members have tested or determined that we are reactive to chicken. We might have to rethink the elimination diet, which recommends chicken and rice as basic foods.
The good news is that you now have a pretty good road map to follow so that you can achieve remission.
Gloria
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
Hi Jenny,
Glad you got your MRT results back - waiting is always so hard. Hope there are not too many disappointments in your list of reactive foods. I found MRT to be very useful in terms of figuring out a starting point in my diet. Hopefully your dietitian has experience with MC and its many "quirks". I did not find my dietitian very helpful, as she lacked specific knowledge about MC (which Mary Beth has in abundance), so I ended up mostly working on my own.
The key is to get your system stable, so if that means that you have to stay with a simple diet for longer than you anticipate, it's well worth it. After deleting all the reactive items from my diet, I saw quick results, which was very encouraging. Lots of luck to you as you continue on your MC journey. I look forward to following your progress.
Love,
Kari
Glad you got your MRT results back - waiting is always so hard. Hope there are not too many disappointments in your list of reactive foods. I found MRT to be very useful in terms of figuring out a starting point in my diet. Hopefully your dietitian has experience with MC and its many "quirks". I did not find my dietitian very helpful, as she lacked specific knowledge about MC (which Mary Beth has in abundance), so I ended up mostly working on my own.
The key is to get your system stable, so if that means that you have to stay with a simple diet for longer than you anticipate, it's well worth it. After deleting all the reactive items from my diet, I saw quick results, which was very encouraging. Lots of luck to you as you continue on your MC journey. I look forward to following your progress.
Love,
Kari
"My mouth waters whenever I pass a bakery shop and sniff the aroma of fresh bread, but I am also grateful simply to be alive and sniffing." Dr. Bernstein
Zizzle,
As far as I can tell, I am totally asymptomatic to casein, but my recent test showed a result of 24, which is pretty high, IMO, considering that I didn't eat a lot of it. Since I've cut it totally out of my diet, again, I can't tell any difference.
It's out of my diet for good, though.
Tex
As far as I can tell, I am totally asymptomatic to casein, but my recent test showed a result of 24, which is pretty high, IMO, considering that I didn't eat a lot of it. Since I've cut it totally out of my diet, again, I can't tell any difference.
It's out of my diet for good, though.Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.