IgG Food Allergy Test w/ Candida

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IgG Food Allergy Test w/ Candida

	General Description
	Testimonials
	Brochure
	Analyte List
	Specimen Requirements
	CPT Codes
	Kit Instructions
	Sample Report
	Order Test (Serum)
	Order Test Dried Blood Spot (DBS)

General Description

IgG testing is a useful guide for structuring elimination diets in many chronic conditions. Individuals with neurological, gastrointestinal, and movement disorders often suffer from IgG food allergies. These people may continue to eat offending foods unaware of their potential effects. IgG antibodies provide long term resistance to infections and have a much longer half life than the traditional IgE allergy. Symptoms may occur hours or days after the offending food has been eaten. The 93 foods tested in the IgG Food Allergy Test w/ Candida can identify problem food so it can be eliminated from the patient’s diet. This elimination of IgG positive foods can improve symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, autism, AD(H)D, cystic fibrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and epilepsy according to numerous clinical studies*.

The Great Plains Laboratory, Inc. recently added Candida to our IgG Food Allergy Test. Candida problems are caused when the benign yeast form of Candida albicans mutates to its fungal form. Candida can take over sections of the intestinal wall causing numerous symptoms. As it grows out of balance it produces toxins that create holes in the intestinal lining, leading to leaky guy syndrome. After entering the blood, Candida albicans causes an inflammatory immune system response. A wide range of disorders have been linked to Candida including autism, multiple sclerosis, depression, and chronic fatigue. Use of antibiotics, oral contraceptives, chemotherapy, and anti-inflammatory steroids greatly increase susceptibility to Candida.

Click here to view the Recommendations By Disorder Chart (PDF)

Click here to read an article on IgG Food Allergies

Dried Blood Spot (DBS) Collection

The IgG Food Allergy Test w/ Candida is available as a dried blood spot collection for patients and practitioners who can’t perform a blood draw. The specimen can be collected from the convenience of home and shipped to our laboratory for analysis. The dried blood spot test is the same price as the serum analysis.

Benefits of Testing

	Helps determine if food reactions are contributing to physical or mental symptoms.
	Removal of highly reactive foods from the diet is a non-invasive, food-based therapy that often mitigates a patient's symptoms.
	Research and clinical studies suggest food allergies identified by IgG testing can be a major contributing factor in many chronic health conditions.
	Food rotation and elimination diets can reduce stress on the immune system, lower gut inflammation, resolve food cravings, and reduce the potential for eating disorders.

Testimonials

IgG Food Allergy Test by Elaine Hardy

"I believe the Great Plains IgG Food Allergy Test is a phenomenal tool that I have implemented in my practice on a daily basis to help treat patients for a wide variety of symptoms....i.e. headaches, IBS, fatigue, abdominal pain, dermatitis, hair loss, joint pain, acne, thyroid disorders, and vitamin deficiencies. I believe I'm a better physician due to this testing. It has transformed my ability to properly diagnose and treat patients effectively."

– Bridget B., M.D.

“I just want to express my sincerest gratitude for your research and commitment to helping people. If it were not for your work, I honestly believe that my son wouldn't be talking, socializing, or making the remarkable progress that he's had in the past five months since starting the GFCF diet.”

– Email to The Great Plains Laboratory, Inc

Brochure

Click here for printable brochure (PDF)

Analyte List

Almond, Apple, Apricot, Asparagus, Avocado, Baker’s Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), Banana, Barley, Beef, Beet, Blueberry, Brewer’s Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), Broccoli, Buckwheat, Cabbage, Candida albicans, Cane Sugar, Carrot, Cashews, Casein, Celery, Cheese, Chicken, Cocoa, Coconut, Cod fish, Coffee, Corn, Crab, Cranberry, Eggplant, Egg White, Egg Yolk, Flax, Garbanzo Beans, Garlic, Gliadin, Goat’s Milk Cheese, Grape, Grapefruit, Green Bean, Green Pepper, Halibut, Hazelnut, Honey, Kidney Bean, Lamb, Lemon, Lentil, Lettuce, Lima bean, Lobster, Milk, Millet, Mozzarella Cheese, Mushroom, Oat, Onion, Orange, Papaya, Pea, Peach, Peanut, Pear, Pecan, Pineapple, Pinto Bean, Pistachio, Plum (Prune), Pork, Potato, Pumpkin, Radish, Rice, Rye, Salmon, Sardine, Sesame, Shrimp, Sorghum, Soybean, Spinach, Strawberry, Sunflower, Sweet Potato, Tomato, Tuna, Turkey, Wheat Gluten, Walnut, Watermelon, Wheat, Whey, Yogurt

Specimen Requirements

Serum: 1 mL of serum in a gold-topped SST or in a royal blue-topped no additive tube.

Dried Blood Spot (DBS): Five full circles of dried blood on the protein saver card is required.

The elimination of a food will reduce the ability for our laboratory to detect antibodies (allergies) to that food.

CPT Codes

86001 (93 units) 86628 86671 (2 units) No Medicare Coverage

Kit Instructions

For blood or dried blood spot (DBS) instructions please click here.

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