As with airborne allergies, food allergies can cause fatigue, headaches, gastrointestinal problems, skin rashes, and a host of other symptoms.
The Hotze Health & Wellness Center uses several approaches to identify and manage food allergies including LEAP testing, oral challenge testing, and the Elimination/Rotation Diet to see if symptoms will result after eating a suspected allergenic food. In all, we test for fifty of the most common food allergens including wheat, corn, eggs, milk, yeast, and soybeans.
Most food allergies can be easily treated using the Elimination/Rotation Diet. Fixed food allergies, such as seen with shellfish or peanuts, are permanent allergies. These food allergies are determined by history. The only current treatment for fixed food allergies is the complete elimination of the offending foods.
The LEAP test is a Mediator Release blood test (MRT). It is the most comprehensive blood test which helps identify foods that are causing inflammatory reactions. MRT is a patented test which quantifies how strongly your circulating immune cells react to various substances tested by indirectly measuring intracellular mediator release. The MRT will test 50 different foods, and you will receive a report with these foods divided into three MRT reaction categories ranging from non-reactive to reactive.
By making healthy changes in your eating program you can minimize many of the symptoms caused by food allergies. Our treatment of food allergies using the elimination/rotation diet is 100% natural, convenient, safe and effective.
