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Do Home Tests (Biocare) Test For Sensitivity?

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revenant Enthusiast
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Are they accurate for intolerance and sensitivity or only celiacs disease??

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Only celiac disease. The only sure test for intolerance is to try the diet strictly for a few months.

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I think Enterolab could be helpful. Enterolab does not diagnose celiac or gluten senstivity but they do look for the stool antibodies and test for more of the genes involved in the celiac spectrum than most labs do.

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I think Enterolab could be helpful. Enterolab does not diagnose celiac or gluten senstivity but they do look for the stool antibodies and test for more of the genes involved in the celiac spectrum than most labs do.

So, I heard a while back that Enterolab was the way to go for testing. The issue for me is the price tag. Does anyone have experience with different test? I came across this test from Canada that all you do is put blood on a card - no sending things back & forth and it's only $50 - but then again, you get what you pay for, right?

I'm still not sure if I want diagnosis or not, but looking into right now & just trying to find more info. I'm sure now that I have had enough gluten & other offending foods recently that I could get a fairly accurate test.

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So, I heard a while back that Enterolab was the way to go for testing. The issue for me is the price tag. Does anyone have experience with different test? I came across this test from Canada that all you do is put blood on a card - no sending things back & forth and it's only $50 - but then again, you get what you pay for, right?

I'm still not sure if I want diagnosis or not, but looking into right now & just trying to find more info. I'm sure now that I have had enough gluten & other offending foods recently that I could get a fairly accurate test.

Probably not. If you're unwilling to go strictly gluten-free, your only option is to challenge four slices of bread worth of gluten/day for at least 4 weeks; a couple months is better; and go to the doctor for a celiac workup. Enterolab is really only some sort of interesting information. It costs a lot because they run multiple tests, while the $50 kit is only one celiac test and you have to be eating full gluten for it to be accurate. Positive Enterolab results wouldn't tell you about celiac or how strict you need to be with the diet anyway. Only your body can do that.

And by the way, from your other post if your problem food list is apples, summer squash/zucchini, bananas, sugar, and processed foods (they typically have high fructose corn syrup) and you do really well with veggies, white rice and chicken, you probably have fructose malabsorption. Wheat has fructans and is a problem food for people with fructose malabsorption. You may also be gluten sensitive; it will be hard to tell. You might get some help from Enterolab, but you can also just remove gluten from your diet and try challenging with a little later on. Really the challenge is more accurate.

Info on the fructose malabsorption diet.

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