ELISA/ACT: The Results

So the results are in from the ELISA/ACT food allergy test my wife took. (I know its a little late but I’ve been studying for midterms.) The results show strong allergies to Peanuts and all cow dairy including cheeses and butter. Moderate allergies are a little more interesting. They include:

• Baker’s Yeast – but brewer’s yeast is fine which is good since we are amateur home brew beer makers:)
• Chicken
• Quinoa – a wheat alternative
• Candida Albicans – a wild yeast that can cause serious GI infections
• Caffeine
• Silicates – found in salt and food additives used to prevent clumping and caking
• Beryllium Oxide – found nataurally in mineral rocks, coal, soil and volcanic dust and used in various industrial applications
• Chinese Ginseng

So the next stop is to avoid all dairy and peanuts for a minimum of 9 months and all moderately sensitive items for at least 6 months. The idea is that eating these items causes the immune response to rage out of control causing chronic inflammation which manifests itself in the form of rheumatoid arthritis. ELISA/ACT claims over 900 autoimmune inflammatory diseases including “Addison’s syndrome to thyroiditis and lupus (SLE), from eczema and psoriasis to allergic migraine headaches and multiple sclerosis, from asthma and pneumonitis to myocarditis and pericarditis, from rheumatoid arthritis to connective tissue syndromes, from glomerulonephritis to interstitial cystitis, from ulcerative colitis (UC) to regional enteritis (RE) to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), from Sjogren’s syndrome to hepatitis, from uveitis to vasculitis, from myofascial pain syndromes to fibromyalgia (FM), from mitochondrial dysfunction syndrome (MDS) to chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS)” can be helped by eliminating food allergies many of which they provide case studies for: http://www.elisaact.com/test/nonhc/case-studies.asp

Check it out if you are looking for a homeopathic alternative treating your autoimmune disease. I’ll keep you posted on our progress to let you know how it is working for us.