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The ALCAT Test for food and chemical sensitivities was recently featured on News Channel 10 in Perth, Australia. The ALCAT Test is a blood test that measures the body’s cellular response to challenges from a wide array of substances, including: foods, additives, colorings and chemicals. The individual’s cellular reactivity after exposure of the blood to various test agents, versus the person’s own baseline control, tells the healthcare provider which substances may be causing a sensitivity-related response in the body. Following testing, a 4-Day rotational diet is recommended to the patient

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Just because you have food allergies doesn’t mean you have to eat in. http://www.WatchMojo.com shows you tips on how to dine safely at restaurants when you have food allergies.

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If you’ve been experiencing watery eyes and excessive sneezing, you’re not alone. Allergy rates are on the rise in the U.S., with an estimated 50 million Americans suffering. One side effect — Americans are buying antihistamines to the tune of 3 billion dollars a year, often times without knowing which allergies are actually causing their symptoms. Doctors say in-vitro blood tests, the latest generation of allergy tests, can help take out the guess work out of diagnosing and treating allergies.
Unlike the skin tests of the past, which can take an hour and a half to perform and require up to 150 injections, in-vitro tests, like the 3G allergy tests, require just one blood sample. Systems like the IMMULITE®2000 from Siemens are then able to test that sample for up to 420 specific allergens and allergy panels. Doctors say this testing method is more convenient, efficient and accurate, not to mention more comfortable for the patient. The tests can be performed in patients over the age of 3 months.

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limited his intake but am now worried because he is a growing cat and he seems underweight (8 lbs.). Is there anything I can feed him that would not lead to this symptom? He is only eating a normal portion for breakfast, sometimes 3-4 treats for lunch and 1/4 cup dry for dinner. Thanks very much.

Hi
Stop feeding kitty crack. For diarrhea, get some acidoupholous from a health food store and sprinkle a bit on the food each day

Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health
Contrary to what you may have heard; dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat.
Please read the label on what you are feeding? What are the ingredients? Do you know what they mean? Is the first ingrediant a muscle meat like chicken or meal or other things?
http://www.catinfo.org/#Learn_How_To_Read_a_Pet_Food_Ingredient_Label
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring04/Perhach/PetFood/InterpretingLabels.htm
Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. Male cats are especially prone to blockages
from dry food. Food allergies are very common when feeding dry foods. Rashes, scabs behind the tail and on the chin are all symptoms The problems associated with Dry food is that they are loaded with grains and carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process. Also, Most of the moisture a cat needs is suppose to be in the food but in Dry, 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Another thing, most use horrible ingredients and don't use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive.
http://www.catinfo.org/#My_Cat_is_Doing_Just_Fine_on_Dry_Food
You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn't have corn at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all.
THE BEST CAT FOODS CONTAIN NO GRAINS NO BYPOODUCTS NO MEAL
Cats are meat eaters not cereal or rice eaters
Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods. I would rather feed a middle grade canned food then the top of the line dry food.
Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Does a hard pretzel clean your teeth or do pieces of it get stuck? http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/bpo_ch4a.php

Please read about cat nutrition.
http://www.catinfo.org/
http://www.catinfo.org/feline_obesity.htm
http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm#Dry_Food_vs_Canned_Food.__Which_is_reall

Vetinarian diets The reason your vet thinks so highly of the pet food they sell probably has more to do with money than nutrition. In vet school, the only classes offered on nutrition usually last a few weeks, and are taught by representatives from the pet food companies. Vet students may also receive free food for their own dogs and cats at home. They could get an Iams notebook, a Purina purse and some free pizza. http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring04/Perhach/PetFood/Vets.htm

National Institutes of Health. Food Allergy and Intolerances
A19247VNB12 - 1992. Discusses Food Allergies and Intolerances. Part of the Medicine for the Public Program. Producer: National Institutes of Health. Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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A carefully administered daily dose of peanuts has been so successful as a therapy for peanut allergies that a select group of children is now off treatment and eating peanuts daily, report doctors at Duke University Medical Center and Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

“It appears these children have lost their allergies,” says Wesley Burks, MD, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at Duke. “This gives other parents and children hope that we’ll soon have a safe, effective treatment that will halt allergies to certain foods.”

Long-term tolerance in children with peanut allergies was documented for the first time by the presence of key immunologic changes, according to researchers at Duke and Arkansas Children’s Hospital who presented their findings at the American Academy of Asthma and Immunology meeting in Washington, DC on March 15, 2009.

Tests of several immunologic indicators suggest the body builds tolerance quickly.
“At the start of the study, these participants couldn’t tolerate one-sixth of a peanut,” Burks said. “Six months into it, they were ingesting 13 to 15 peanuts before they had a reaction.”

About four million Americans have food allergies, and allergies to tree nuts, such as peanuts, are the most common. Life-threatening reactions can occur from exposure to even a trace amount of peanuts, and nearly half of the 150 deaths attributed to food allergies each year are caused by peanut allergies.

Duke and Arkansas Children’s Hospital began enrolling patients in studies five years ago to determine if incremental doses of peanut protein could change how the body’s immune system responds to its presence. The doses start as small as 1/1000 of a peanut. Eight to 10 months later, the children are ingesting the equivalent of up to 15 peanuts per day. The children stay on that daily therapy for several years and are monitored closely.

Nine of the 33 children participating in the study have been on maintenance therapy for more than 2.5 years. After a series of food challenges, four of those children were taken off the treatment and continue to eat peanuts. Some have been off treatment for more than a year. Doctors keep tabs on any potential changes in their immune system via skin, blood and immune studies.

One of the tests used in the study looks at immunoglobulin E (IgE), a protein the body makes in response to peanut allergens. “If you have it, you’re likely allergic, if you don’t, you aren’t,” explained Burks.

Children in this study generally started with IgE levels greater than 25. “At the end of the study, their peanut IgEs were less than 2 and have remained that way since we stopped the treatment,” he said.

For more information, visit http://www.dukehealth.org

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So I’m kind of on a fermenting rampage.
Please excuse me for being “redundant” I was slightly repetitive in this video, but I emphasize how important it is to include lacto-fermented food into your diets!

Two words ENZYMES and Microflora!!!!
Which actually, bacteria in your gut also produce what is known as “accessory enzymes” which also contribute to your ability to digest food.

What is the funniest thing to me is that I will imagine as I’m eating some kefir with fresh fruit that they bacteria are eating the sugars in the fruit while I am eating them. It is like one of those mirror images that keeps going on and on and never ends..

So what I’ve got fermenting;
*Kefir-Milk (Kefir Grain is symbiotic relationship of yeast and bacteria which convert the lactose into lactic acid. Great item for those who are lactose intolerant, {which is everyone to a degree}.
*Lacto-fermented Veggies/Kraut/Pickles- Enzymes, and the original nutritional content of the food. Better than eating it raw if you ask me. Fermentation increases all the best parts of raw food.
*Kombucha tea- Mother of Kombucha is yet again a symbiotic relationship of Bacteria to yeast which convert sugars into Lactic acid, acetic acid (vinegar) and alcohol. It is something in between an alcoholic beverage and vinegar.
*Fruit Enzyme- This one I’m new to, so I can’t say I’m sure what is going to happen. Had some of my fruit enzyme (whey) mix this morning with my Kefir and it was a bit on the alcoholic side. I may have let it ferment too long before introducing the whey, and the yeast is now competing with the bacteria for dominance. Eventually, alcohol will convert to vinegar, and I do plan to make another test bottle and incorporate some Kombucha strain into that one rather than the whey.
*Sourdough!!! (Smells fresh bread baking!! Yum..) This is a variation on a theme, I used Kefir to inoculate this sourdough and it fermented for a couple days. I also included some of my old sourdough culture from the fridge into the mix and will find out if this is a successful mixture. I did not use commercial yeast.

You can and should also ferment your grains for a morning porridge/gruel type of deal. This makes the nutrients more accessible and completely eliminates all the anti-nutrients present in the grains. It is a misconception that a whole grain diet leads to health. Rather a sprouted/soaked/fermented whole grain diet in fact leads to health.

When testing out your fermented food products, be sure to utilize your senses and if it doesn’t seem right, don’t eat it!! I take quite the risk, I let things sit and ferment and I taste everything and if it isn’t totally gross, I consume it because I want to expose my immune system to all sorts of bugs so it has a chance to exercise.

I made drink out of Molasses and Kombucha mixed with lemon juice and honey and spring water, and forgot about it for a week in my car, lo and behold it had undergone fermentation. The sugars where no longer present and I still drank the stuff, it was kinda weird, the molasses without the sugar is indeed bitter, but I’m still alive and Molasses is actually very good for you. It has tons of Potassium, Calcium and Iron. (Blackstrap unsulphured of course.) There are many ways to ferment.. And it is fun to experiment!

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Hi all, i started feeding my 4 month old baby porridge 5 days ago and baby rice 3 days ago, in the last two - three days he has been very gassy (that smell very bad) has diarrhea and a nappy rash… i have been doing some research and the signs point to a food intolerance or allergic reaction im not sure which one.. i am taking him to our doctor tomorrow but i am just wondering if any other moms out there have a baby with a food intolerance and what there symptoms were like??

Since there are two possible things your baby could have reacted to, it's hard to say what is going on here. It could just be that your baby is reacting to having solid foods all together. It takes time for a baby's tummy to get used to the textures of solid foods.

In any event, your child's doctor will likely have you refrain from giving solid foods until 6 months and have you retry both foods with a week in between to see if symptoms return. Allergy testing isn't really very effective in children less than 2 years old.

Hope this helps!