[mochimama]

My MIL, who is gluten and dairy intolerant, offered to pay for Enterolab testing for our dd who has eczema. We have been previously unable to figure out her intolerances and currently are not giving her gluten, dairy, soy, eggs, corn, nightshades, and a lot of other foods with some improvement.
I've searched for Enterolab within this forum and found some information. My impression is that it is one of the more accurate "intolerance tests." Is that true in your experiences? Are there better tests?
I saw that Enterolab tests for IgA. Is that more accurate than testing for IgG?
We've ordered the gluten, dairy, soy, egg, and yeast tests for her.
Would love to hear your opinions.

 

[changingseasons]

I know someone around here has used them... just bumping you back up to the first page to see if anyone has any thoughts for you.

 

[mochimama]

Thanks, I'm going to bump again myself.

 

[tbone]

I used this test for myself and ds1.

We chose to do an enterolabs test because his RAST testing came back neg and we had already taken him off of gluten so doing a celiac testing on him would not have been accurate.

He had a lot of different symptoms, from dark circles, really angry behavior (not like him at all), and horrible itchiness (to the point of drawing blood). He has also been diagnosed as Failure to Thrive. We had taken him off of gluten and dairy and the symptoms cut back by more than half, but there was still a some itchiness. The enterolab results concluded he was also intolerant to soy. After taking that out, all symptoms went away. So at the time it was very helpful to us. However, an elimination diet may prove just as helpful.

This was almost a year ago, however recently, he has been having a lot of itchiness again and has lost interest in food again, so now I'm back at square one, trying to figure out what's going on now.

HTH

 

[p1gg1e]

I thought I would bump this thread.

I'm taking YDD to the Children's Hosp. GI for evaluation. She has such extreme symptoms that I'm thinking this stool test is the way to go since we wont have to introduce gluten back in. I'm sure I'll get looked at like I have 3 heads but really I think this is about the only way we can go. I feel that 8 weeks of gluten would just make a sleep free, food free 2 months and end up with tube feeding and other issues that we avoided with my quick removal of gluten at such an early age ( thank you LC

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Anyone know how this test is looked at by Dr.'s?

 

[momofmine]

From what I've hear they are a very reputable lab, and I have been wanting to get my whole family to do the gluten/celiac test that is both stool and DNA cheek swab. Personally, I wouldn't care how most conventional docs would look at it.