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Tests for Intolerances
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Tests for Intolerances
Does anyone know if Allergy doctors scratch tests are accurate for testing for soy, wheat, gluten, etc.
I had allergy doctor patch tests done, where they apply small amounts of the suspect food to your back and wait 24 or 48 hours, then look for redness where the food patches were. Mine were inconclusive, no real obvious positives, so it felt like a waste of time. But I'm not prone to food allergies, only intolerances.
Those skin tests are often useful for skin allergies, but generally useless for determining digestive system issues caused by food sensitivities. If we absorbed food by applying it to our skin, tests of that type might be useful, but unfortunately, we have to route all our food through our digestive system, in order to derive any benefit from it. As a result, the antibodies to foods to which we are sensitive, are produced in our intestines, not on our skin. What happens on the skin is monitored by, and modulated by, the central nervous system. What happens in the gut is monitored by, and modulated by, the enteric nervous system.
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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.