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Food intolerances are more difficult to spot than typical allergies.
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It’s not hard to spot a rash that appears right after a handful of peanuts. If you can’t even stand the smell of tomatoes, you don’t need allergy tests to avoid eating them. But few people are so attentive to their well-being to guess to associate periodic mood swings not with PMS, but with mom’s branded cabbage rolls.
Unfortunately, in some cases, you feel sick precisely because you, without knowing it, include completely unsuitable foods in your diet. , according to the doctors of the CM-Clinic, up to 45% of people suffer. Perfectly cooked, tasty, however, not all foods are fully digested in every intestine. Insufficiently cleaved protein molecules, which enzymes cannot cope with, trigger a reaction of the immune system. Food intolerance is a common occurrence in gastritis, chronic cholecystitis and pancreatitis, colitis, intestinal dysbiosis and neuroendocrine diseases.
It is with food intolerance that some doctors associate the fact that the patient cannot cope with the problem of excess weight, persistent stomach upset, edema, and skin problems. Therefore, you should not be surprised if you are advised to have a blood test for antibodies to food.
В 216 allergens (27 groups) can be diagnosed with food intolerances by enzyme immunoassay.
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a laboratory study based on high selectivity and specificity of antigen-antibody immunological reactions.
As a result, the patient receives a list of foods that are allowed for consumption and those that are recommended to be excluded from the diet in the next 6 months. The best part is that in addition to the results, you can get a set of recipes from the allowed products.
Let’s listen to the doctors
Doctor-endocrinologist
: engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with endocrinological pathology, conducts classes at the “School of Diabetes”.
The most common pathologies in endocrinology today are obesity and diabetes mellitus. There are many causes and various factors in the nature of these diseases, which require an integrated approach to treatment.
One of the components of the treatment of obesity and diabetes mellitus is the rational choice of food, based on international dietary recommendations. However, this is often not enough. Both obesity and diabetes mellitus are often accompanied by various pathologies (such as arterial hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, joint diseases, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, etc.) and complications. In these cases, it becomes necessary to select an individual nutritional regimen, since from the standpoint of modern understanding of the problem of food intolerance, the same product can be useful for one patient and harmful for another.
We can offer our patients a strictly individual approach, which will speed up the treatment process.
Doctor – gastroenterologist
: specialized in gastroenterology and therapy.
The problem of food intolerance and true food allergy from the standpoint of gastroenterologists can be considered in two aspects.
On the one hand, a significant contribution to the development of these conditions is made by chronic diseases of the digestive system, leading to a violation of the digestive barrier, which selectively protects the body from the effects of various antigens. Many diseases of the gastrointestinal tract are accompanied by digestive disorders. Undigested food residues accumulate on the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract, the intestinal mucosa is damaged, the level of local immunological protection decreases, and the permeability of the epithelium increases. Toxins are increasingly entering the bloodstream. Thus, true food allergies and food intolerances are a consequence of diseases of the digestive system.
On the other hand, the development of food intolerances and true food allergies significantly aggravates the course of existing diseases of the digestive system.
It should be noted that the formation of food allergy (in the broad sense of this concept) is facilitated not only by infectious and non-infectious diseases of the digestive system, but also by functional diseases (diseases in which the motility of the esophagus, stomach, intestines, biliary tract is disturbed): irritable bowel syndrome, ulcer-like syndrome, etc.
Diseases that contribute to the development of food intolerances:
- Esophagitis. Peptic ulcer disease. Gastroduodenitis.
- Pancreatitis. Cholecystitis. Cholangitis. Cholelithiasis. Hepatitis. Liver cirrhosis.
- Functional diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Infectious and parasitic diseases of the digestive system, including Helicobacter pylori infection (Helicobacter pylori infection).
- Non-infectious enteritis and colitis.
- Diverticular bowel disease. Ischemic disease of the digestive system.
- Syndrome of bacterial overgrowth (especially after resection of the small or large intestine).
- Conditions after surgical treatment of diseases of the digestive system. Diseases of the operated stomach.
- Digestive tract neuroendocrine diseases.
You can go through the diagnosis of food intolerance and get advice from an allergist and immunologist at:
m. “Voykovskaya” st. Cosmonaut Volkov, 9 / 2225-34-00, 225-50-80
m. “Voykovskaya” st. Clara Zetkin, 33 / 28518-94-74, 777-48-49
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