Allergy testing Q & gluten free = yeast free?

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Every regular doctor I've been to has told me that there is no test other than the skin poke allergy testing, but my mom started seeing a naturopath about a year ago and she had blood work done called for a test called an iGG. She had it done, found out she was having an inflammatory response to a whole bunch of foods in her diet, and when she cut them all out it made a huge, significant difference. She has had allergy testing done multiple times and the skin tests never showed any of her intolerances because the skin tests only work for certain kinds of your body's responses. I had my first appointment with her last week, and I go in on Friday to have my blood drawn. I'm really anxious to find out my results.

I feel like I'm not explaining this very well. My answer is that there are definitely options beyond skin testing, but for some reason you have to hunt for them.

[centralperk]

In general, there are 2 types of allergy tests. One is something they put on (or inside) your skin, either via needle pricks or by putting stickers on your back (patch test). The other is blood tests. But the patch/prick tests only test for the allergens that they inject in/put on you. So even if you don't react to any of those, that doesn't mean you're not allergic to *anything*, they just screen for the most common allergies. You can also do blood tests, which can be screening tests as well, or they can test for specific allergens. To do that, they look for antibodies to specific suspected allergens.

Both of these types of tests can be done on children and adults. It's just a question of whether or not you know what you're looking for.

I don't know if that helps, just thought I'd try. I've never heard of a yeast allergy so I can't help you there, sorry.

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Oct 8, 2013 13:14:43 GMT -5 centralperk said:

In general, there are 2 types of allergy tests. One is something they put on (or inside) your skin, either via needle pricks or by putting stickers on your back (patch test). The other is blood tests. But the patch/prick tests only test for the allergens that they inject in/put on you. So even if you don't react to any of those, that doesn't mean you're not allergic to *anything*, they just screen for the most common allergies. You can also do blood tests, which can be screening tests as well, or they can test for specific allergens. To do that, they look for antibodies to specific suspected allergens.

Both of these types of tests can be done on children and adults. It's just a question of whether or not you know what you're looking for.

I don't know if that helps, just thought I'd try. I've never heard of a yeast allergy so I can't help you there, sorry.

Your post reminded me that I forgot to mention in my post that my mom is allergic to yeast. She found out through blood testing.