I Did a Food Sensitivity Test. And I Got Surprised By The Results
Last year I had some skin issues, where there were some skin rashes, like a mosquito bite, and I was also feeling bloated all the time. This bothered me for a whole year until I decided to investigate and make a food sensitivity test.
And the results were surprising!
First, I need to explain the difference between a food sensitivity test and an allergy test. To check if you are allergic to any food, IgE antibodies are tested, but IgG antibodies test food sensitivity. Food allergy can be life-threatening, and food sensitivity is less life-threatening.
This test is done at home. I received a kit with a manual explaining all the steps and the products to perform the test, three sterile pricks, gauze, hand sanitizer, and an absorbent paper with instructions.
To perform the test, I first needed to move myself to increase blood circulation. Then with the prick I received, I prick my ring finger. It stings lightly, and it doesn’t hurt. After that, a little blood starts coming out, and I poured it in the indicated places, which are 5 tiny dots on the absorbent paper.
After this process was completed, I put the test in the appropriate packaging and mailed it back to the laboratory to finalize the tests.
A week later, I received the link with the test results ready by email. And to my surprise, I found out that I have a sensitivity to more than 50 types of food! The test is divided into high reactivity, moderate reactivity, mild reactivity, and normal reactivity.
The result showed no food with high reactivity, but I have a moderate sensitivity to three foods: milk, egg white, and yogurt. Milk was not surprising because I had already done a lactose intolerance test, that the result was positive, and I always felt the symptoms when drinking milk and dairy products. But what surprised me was the egg white being on the list, and in the past few months, I was eating eggs often.
In the list of mild reactivity, the result was positive for 49 other foods. I won’t put a list here because it’s personal and too long.
The question that remains: Is it possible to eliminate all this variety of food from the diet? In my case, I decided that I would not eliminate all foods but would focus mainly on the group that showed moderate reactivity and the foods that I really feel most unwell with when eating them. This is also a recommendation of the company that I performed the test.
After 8 months of getting the results, I feel that I have more control over the foods that make me feel unwell, and even when I can’t resist that egg with a soft yolk on a Sunday brunch, I am aware that the discomfort hours later was caused by that.