Your Health Where It Belongs... Your Hands

Note: This is a test kit that will be mailed to you. It can be performed using a dried blood spot or a blood draw. Unless we are told otherwise, the dried blood spot kit will be sent to you. It is your responsibility to arrange for the blood draw for your kit should you choose the blood draw.

Fasting Required:
No
Lab:
US BioTek
Specimen:
Blood Spot
Results:
Average processing time 7-10 business days
Note: Result turnaround times are an estimate and are not guaranteed. Our reference lab may need additional time due to weather, holidays, confirmation/repeat testing, or equipment maintenance.

Special Instructions:
It is suggested that you maintain your usual dietary habits and consume a variety of foods when possible within a couple weeks prior to blood collection, unless advised otherwise by your healthcare practitioner. Avoid eating foods that may have potentially resulted in a previous adverse reaction and/or anaphylaxis, as secondary exposure may prove fatal. Do not perform this test if you are taking blood thinning medications or if you have a blood clotting disorder unless authorized by your healthcare practitioner. Immunosuppressive drugs such as oral and intranasal corticosteroids (e.g. prednisone, beclomethasone, fluticasone, triamcinolone) and topical cortisone suspensions and creams, in addition to immune-modulating drugs, may affect test results for antibody assessment.
Dried Blood Spot testing is not recommended for children under the age of 18 months.

Description:
Food allergies and sensitivities are recognized to be correlated with many plaguing health conditions, but with proper identification and elimination of offending foods, many experience relief from their symptoms. The IgG antibody assessment can serve as a useful tool in the identification of trigger foods in individuals.
IgG Foods Included:
Dairy Casein Cheddar Cheese Cow's Milk Goat's Milk Whey Fish/Crustacea/Mollusk: Clam Cod Crab Halibut Lobster Salmon Scallop Shrimp Sole Trout Tuna Fruits: Apple Apricot Banana Blueberry Cranberry Grape Grapefruit Lemon Olive Orange Papaya Peach Pear Pineapple Plum Raspberry Strawberry Grains/Legumes/Nuts: Almond Barley Buckwheat Chestnut Chickpea Coconut Corn Gliadin Gluten Green Bean Hazelnut Lentil Lima Bean Oat Peanut Pecan Pinto Bean Rye Soybean Spelt Walnut Wheat White Rice Egg/Meat/Poultry: Beef Chicken Chicken Egg White Chicken Egg Yolk Duck Egg Whole Lamb Pork Turkey Miscellaneous: Baker's/Brewer's Yeast Button Mushroom Cane Sugar Cocoa Bean (Chocolate) Coffee Bean Flaxseed Ginger Honey Sesame Seed Sunflower Seed
Herbs/Spices:
Ginger Oregano Vegetables: Asparagus Avocado Beet Broccoli/Brussel Sprout Cabbage Carrot Cauliflower Celery Cucumber Garlic Green Bell Pepper Lettuce Onion Pumpkin Spinach Sweet Potato Tomato White Potato
Candida Screen:
Candida Albicans