16 May Safeguard Your Health with Food Intolerance Testing
Do you suffer from food allergies or think you might? If there is a certain food that seems to make you ill or feel a little off, it could be a sign of a food intolerance or allergy. Millions of Americans suffer from daily aches and pains that are due to dietary issues and many of them don’t know that the cause is their diet. Food allergies have been linked to conditions such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, migraines, pain, inflammation, swelling and more. At Mile High Spine & Pain Center, we offer ALCAT food intolerance testing to measure your reactions to several hundred food items. We can find what foods cause you allergic reactions (from allergies) and what foods cause you to have low grade, but persistent symptoms (from food intolerances). We provide testing for hundreds of substances that are or potentially could make you sick. Don’t take a chance on your health. Get food intolerance testing today and safeguard your health!
What Allergies Do To Your Body
What is an allergy and what is a food intolerance? An allergy is a reaction to a food, chemical or environmental agent that causes the immune system to react defensively, creating symptoms that range from mild to life-threatening. Allergies are no joke, as they can lead to hives, wheezing, low blood pressure, asthma attacks, stomach pain, swelling and even anaphylactic shock that can lead to death. In common cases, when a food is ingested that a person is allergic to, their tongue may swell up, causing their airway to be severely constricted or blocked. If you have any of these types of reactions, you are dealing with an allergy and need to seek medical attention right away. How do you combat an allergy? Medication and avoidance! It can be vitally important to health and safety in some individuals to receive allergy testing so that allergies can be avoided. If an allergy is present, you should always have an EpiPen with you in case you can’t get to a hospital within a few minutes. An EpiPen could save your life.
What Food Intolerances Do To Your Body
What about a food intolerances? Let’s think of a food intolerance as a grade below an allergy. A food intolerance is not something that you necessarily have an allergy to, but is a food, chemical or environmental agent that causes low-grade but persistent symptoms. Some of these could include headaches, skin problems, insomnia, diarrhea (or Irritable Bowel Syndrome), difficulty maintaining or losing weight or stomach aches. When it’s a substance that you ingest or are around a lot you may start to see a pattern with symptoms. For example, if you have an intolerance to bananas, you may get a stomach ache every time you eat one. Or your digestive system may experience upsets when you ingest black pepper. These are signs of a food intolerance. How do you combat a food intolerance? Get tested to see what substances you are intolerant to and then avoid those substances.
Allergy Facts and Figures
- Allergies can be caused by something you inhale into your lungs, eat, inject into your body or touch.
- Allergies in general affect about 30% of adults and 40% of children.
- 15 million Americans (that have been diagnosed) suffer from food allergies.
- Food allergies affect at least 1 in 13 children.
- The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America estimates that nasal allergies affect around 50 million Americans.
- Anaphylaxis (or anaphylactic shock) is one of the worst and most life-threatening allergic reactions and generally is caused by foods, medicines and insect stings.
- The top food allergies include: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts (almonds, walnuts, cashews, etc.), fish, shellfish (crab, shrimp, lobster), soy and wheat.
- There is NO cure for allergies, but you can build up an immunity for some allergies over time with professional help. Getting tested for allergies is the first step to knowing what allergens are foreign to your body and how to become more immune.
Food Intolerance and Allergy Testing
Like we mentioned, getting testing is the best way to know what foods, animals, chemical and environmental allergens affect you the most. The majority of our patients that are tested will find out they have allergies that they weren’t even aware of, safeguarding their health from life-threatening reactions. With ALCAT food intolerance testing, we provide you the widest range of panel options for testing. You can customize your tests to fit your needs or allergies that you already know you have. We can measure your reactions to over 200 food items and several hundred other intolerance triggers. Some of these tests include common food items, herbs, supplements, pesticides and environmental hazards, molds, mildews, antibiotics and medications. We simply need a small sample of your blood to send to a special lab where each allergen will be individually tested to measure how that allergen will affect your blood, helping us know exactly how it will affect you.
Knowing your allergies and avoiding them can literally save your life if allergies are severe. Knowing what foods you are intolerant to can help you avoid headaches, low energy levels, inflammation and more. We know you can have a much better day-to-day life if allergies and intolerances aren’t bogging you down. Take control of your health now by calling our Mile High Spine & Pain Center today at (720) 507-0080 for your food intolerance testing or to simply learn more!