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12:31 pm
March 4, 2009
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Dear Shelley,
It sounds as though restricting your diet was somewhat successful. That's encouraging. I’ve added an Elimination/Detox diet to my website that I don’t know if you’ve seen – http://www.brendawatson.com/diet/ . If foods, when reintroduced, create symptoms, those foods are to be avoided for a while into the future generally. Were you able to tell which foods increased your diarrhea?
I would definitely get the Comprehensive Stool Analysis immediately. When you get your results, if you’d like, we can help you understand the findings. Chronic diarrhea could be a sign of parasitic or pathogenic organisms.
Personally, I like the type of testing for allergens that Enterolab does (mentioned in the post toward the top of this Forum). Different practitioners use different tools. You got some information from the testing you did. Just not quite enough, it seems.
Probiotics and Intestinew are a good start. If a bacterial or fungal overgrowth is underlying your symptoms, that will be revealed in your testing. Then you can begin the appropriate program to help balance your gut.
Make sure you are including enough fiber in your diet – both soluble (absorbs toxins and feeds the probiotics) and insoluble(exercises and sweeps out the intestine).
Let me know how it goes.
Brenda Watson
5:05 pm
November 11, 2011
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Hi Brenda,
This summer I went to doctor for digestive problems that I had been dealing with for many years, mainly diarrhea, gas and heartburn. She had my blood tested for food sensitivities and for other deficiencies, and I was given a list of 68 food items that I had to completely avoid for 3 months along with doing a candida cleanse. It was very hard to follow, but I followed the diet very strictly. I only had two espisodes of diarrhea during those months, but I did have quite a bit of gas problems still. Now I have been adding foods back to my diet and at first didn't have diarrhea problems but only the gas in the evenings, but now it is starting up again. Someone told me that those blood tests for food sensitivities are not reliable and I am beginning to think I wasted alot of money for nothing. What can you tell me about this? Even though money is tight right now, my husband suggested that I get the comprehensive stool analysis you recommend because I can't keep living like this. Would you suggest that I go and have a colonoscopy first to see if I have anything seriously wrong (even though the thought of it scares me and I don't trust mainstream medical doctors because of past experience) or just go right to the csa test and see what that shows? I have just purchased the Critical Care 50 Billion probiotic from Renew Life and also am waiting for my Intestinew to come also.
Thank you,
Shelley
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