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In <[log in to unmask]>, on 03/11/98
   at 09:25 AM, Kemp Randolph <[log in to unmask]> said:

Responses to Sampson's description of skin or blood testing for food
sensitivities:

>>He describes these tests only as useful guides and points out that diet
>>testing is the only reliable way to identify a food allergy, preferably
>>where the person doesn't know whether they've eaten the suspect food.

indicated a definition of food allergy restricted to IgE responses.
Sampson, many medical authorites, and I were referring both to  IgE
responses and  IgG responses. Latter called intolerances by some.

>> I reccomend checking out Dr. James Braly's book, DR. BRALY'S FOOD ALLERGY
AND NUTRITION REVOLUTION.  He is a M.D. who specializes in treating food
intolerances.  While it is true that skin testing is inaccurate for food
intolerances, blood testing is supposedly very accurate for identifing IgG
mediated immune responses to food. <<

>>I have found the blood tests for food allergy to be l00% accurate and
extremely helpful in diagnosing my food sensitivities. I don't trust
anything traditional medicine has to say about this subject ... BTW the
most recent testing I had done was...  the IgG4 Food Antibody Panel.<<

There were no responses to the following:

>>What's unclear from this reference and from Medline searches I've made
>>is whether food allergies in adults   cause villi damage.  All the
>>references I found were for children.
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Doesn't some adult have biopsies with and without some non-gluten food
allergen in the diet, whether IgE and IgG mediated?

                                                 Kemp Randolph
                                                 Long Island
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