Allergies & intolerance tests

Amp34 said:
If you were that bad why didn't you go and see you GP?

I started having issues about 13 years ago and went to my GP who referred me to a nutritionist (employed by the NHS), got a food diary going and we worked out what I couldn't eat. Turns out it was wheat. I also had a few appointments with a specialist in London to check if my issues weren't symptoms of a more dangerous underlying issue. All free on the NHS...

I get the impression this area is becoming like the Chiropractor/Physiotherapist issue. One is essentially a quack that doesn't need qualifications and the other is a trained, regulated career largely connected to the NHS... Nutritionists and Physiotherapist work for the NHS, Chiropractors and Naturopathists(sp?) don't...
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I appreciate the sentiment of your post, but that's totally wrong.

Nutritionist means absolutely nothing. Dietitian is a protected term, and they work for the NHS.
 
Found that out the other day and when I read the post again after the necro realised my mistake. I was referred to a dietician then. In my defence it was a long time ago. :p
 
secretspy said:
I don't see how they'd get a decent reading from your hair :confused: I previously tried one which requires a small amount of blood mixed with the relevant solutions and nothing was flagged up.

I went to the doctors, saw several different ones and no one was willing to help so I went to a naturopathic clinic and found out I had an issue with wheat, gluten and soya.

I'd suggest go to your GP first and hopefully they'll be more willing to help you than mine were.
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You're kidding right? Don't ever go through UK security clearance then because in the early days, they'd take a sample of your hair. Why? Oh, only because it can show drug history dating back 7 or so years.
 
FML1990 said:
What do you mean?
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That blood types determine your diet. So type A for example is modern blood type and supposedly works well with vegetarian. Total nonsense. The main benefit of any of these diets including things like paleo is eating fresh non processed foods. Which for 99% of the public is a massively beneficial change on it's own.
From there you need to specialise a bit more which blood type doesn't. It makes no change for any conditions like diabetes. They also get basic things wrong, like they say A is modern and O was original. When in fact all evidence points to A being the original blood type.
 
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Django x2 said:
You're kidding right? Don't ever go through UK security clearance then because in the early days, they'd take a sample of your hair. Why? Oh, only because it can show drug history dating back 7 or so years.
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I can't fathom how a hair sample can tell you anything about allergy. Chemical testing yes but allergy?
 
I also fail to see how is can chemically test for things far beyond its own existance.
If i have coke seven years ago, no hair test is going to determine that now.

Allergy testing from hair, comes with six free bottles of snake oil, and one of those bottomless suitcases to store the amount of excrement the person selling the test must write and speak.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
I also fail to see how is can chemically test for things far beyond its own existance.
If i have coke seven years ago, no hair test is going to determine that now.

Allergy testing from hair, comes with six free bottles of snake oil, and one of those bottomless suitcases to store the amount of excrement the person selling the test must write and speak.
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Chemicals get trapped in the hair as it grows, so depending how long your hair is and how damaged it is they can go back a fair while.
But like ice cores.
 
Indeed yes, but hair also splits, falls out, tatters.
There Are few adults males with hairs longer than seven years worth.
Hair grows at six inches per year, some people faster.
So seven years is frankly unlikely in the extreme.
 
Sending off hair samples to get allergy/intolerance tests results seems to be the new thing to do to waste money. Why don't people research or question what they are about to do?

I've just gone onto a website which does this and at the bottom of their site is a disclaimer:
This website and our hair analysis does not make a medical diagnosis nor any medical claims. The information on this site is intended to provide nuticional advice for dietary optimisation. Alergylab do not claim to treat or cure symptoms and any reports generated by the testing need to be discussed with a medical practitioner. Reliance on any information provided by this website is solely at own risk. - https://www.intolerancelab.co.uk
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The NHS and the Association of UK dietitians advises against such tests due to their accuracy and lack of scientific basis.

Has anyone had any such tests done and then verified by a doctor?
 
I had the hair intolerance test done after suspecting I was intolerant of hops. Beer had always made me sneeze but more recently I was suffering more serious side effects.

The day I received the results I broke out in hives, had no idea what had caused it.

The results said, beer hops and white fish intolerances.

I had fish for the lunch that day.

I’ve now replaced the beer with cider/spirits and feel great, even the following morning.
 
Mr-White said:
Has anyone done one of these tests ? I don't believe I have any allergies but suspect I may have intolerances, but some brief googling suggests they may not be accurate.

This company for £50 will test you against 300 foods from 3 or 4 hairs.

MW
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I passed the allergies test, but failed the intolerance one spectacularly.


I'll get my coat ......
 
NMBlack said:
[edit - seriously? censoring that word when it's used in context?]
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Don't worry. The advanced IT techies who run this forum haven't heard of accurate wild carding. Most of these people of IT jobs too.... so one line of code can be hard to fit in to a busy schedule. :p
 
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