Food Allergy Testing

We had done routine allergy testing that had revealed Matthew had strong allergic reactions to environmental elements such as pollen, grasses pet hair etc. Much of the time during Matthew's first 3 - 4 years, Matthew had impacted Sinusitis. His Sinusitis did not finally clear up till he had sinus surgery at age 4.

But, at age 3 1/2, we did our first food allergy tests based upon blood serum reactions to a list of about 75 different foods. The tests were performed by Great Plains Laboratory. The results were astonishing. He was most allergic to the very foods he insisted upon eating from age 1 to 3- milk (dairy), peanut butter, white potatoes (McDonald's French Fries) and tomatoes (ketchup).

Within the context of the theories surrounding Diet and Autism- this made perfect sense. It is explained that in the digestive tract of some children with Autism, certain food proteins (specifically casein - dairy , and gluten - wheat) do not break down completely due to missing enzymes, unbalanced gut flora and sometimes damaged colons. The chemical state in which these partially digested proteins exist is similar to morphine! This totally agreed with what we observed in Matthew's behavior when he had dairy and wheat products.

But we also found, unexpectedly, allergies to white potatoes and soy. We removed all the strongly allergic foods and strictly limited the mildly allergic foods. We found substitutes for wheat like Rice bread and Almond milk for cow's milk.

***But understand, this is still very controversial and not accepted as fact by the traditional "Medical Community".***

Many allergy Doctors still argue that food allergies are not REAL allergies. They maintain that the test results are false positives. But, from our experience, when we removed the foods he tested allergic to, and substituted foods that were not on his list- HE GOT BETTER.

Furthermore, if you watch the news, you will see news stories that there are kids now that are so "allergic" to peanuts that a little peanut oil can kill them. Is this a true allergy? or a false positive? Does it really matter if it is a true allergy or not if the end result is Death or Autistic symptoms?

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