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Allergy & Intolerance Test 
Items Tested 

What is an Allergy:
An allergy is the body’s immune system responding to what would normally be considered a harmless substance.  When a harmless substance such as dust, mould, pollen, or a certain food type is encountered by a person who is allergic to that substance, the immune system may overreact by producing antibodies that "attack" the allergen.  When the body perceives the substance as a ‘threat’, it produces a type of antibody, also called Immunoglobulin E (IgE).

How do we test for Allergies:

To test for allergies, our laboratory looks at Immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels in your blood.  Your blood sample ‘circles’, are cut from the card, put into a small test tube.  A liquid is added and the tube is agitated in a machine, releasing your sample for testing.


Your blood sample is applied to test strips, that contain samples of the substances to be tested and placed into a machine.  During this process IgE antibodies will have ‘attached’ themselves to any substances that your sample perceived as a threat.


Allergy: Items Included:

  • Common Ragweed

  • Crab

  • Cypress

  • Dog Dander

  • Egg White

  • English Plantain

  • Hazelnut (Pollen)

  • Hazelnut (Food)

  • Horse Dander

  • House Dust Mites

  • Meat

  • Milk

  • Mugwort

  • Almond

  • Apple

  • Ash

  • Bahia Grass

  • Bermuda Grass

  • Birch

  • Caldosporium Herbarum

  • Carrot

  • Cat Dander

  • CCD

  • Cockroach

  • Cod

  • Olive

  • Orange

  • Peach

  • Peanut

  • Potato

  • Rice

  • Rye

  • Salmon

  • Shrimp

  • Soy

  • Timothy Grass

  • Tomato

  • Wheat

What is an Intolerance:
A Food Intolerance is difficulty digesting certain foods and often resulting in experiencing a physical reaction or symptom as a result of consumption. Symptoms such as bloating and stomach pain, are the most common as usually happen a few hours after eating the food.

Food intolerance reactions do not involve IgE antibodies as an immune response in the way allergies can.  To test for food intolerances our laboratory looks at Immunoglobulin 4 (IgG4) levels in your blood. IgG4 is a subclass of IgG, which is the most common form of immunoglobulin.
 

How do we test for Intolerances:

To test for an intolerance, our laboratory looks at Immunoglobulin 4 (IgG4) levels in your blood.
 

As with the allergy test, your blood sample ‘circles’, are cut from the card, put into a small test tube.  A liquid is added and the tube is agitated in a machine, releasing your sample for testing.
 

Your blood sample is applied to test strips, that contain samples of the substances to be tested and placed into a machine.  During this process IgG4 antibodies will have ‘attached’ themselves to any substances that your sample shows an intolerance to.


Intolerances: Items Included

  • Almond

  • Amaranth

  • Apple

  • Banana

  • Bean, Green

  • Beef

  • Blue Mussel

  • Buckwheat

  • Cabbage

  • Carrot

  • Celery

  • Chicken

  • Cod

  • Cucumber

  • Egg White

  • Egg Yolk

  • Garlic

  • Goats Milk

  • Hazelnut

  • Herring

  • Kiwi Fruit

  • Maize

  • Milk

  • Mustard

  • Oat

  • Onion

  • Orange

  • Pea, Green

  • Peanut

  • Pork

  • Potato

  • Rice

  • Rye

  • Salmon

  • Sheep’s Milk

  • Shrimp

  • Soy

  • Tomato

  • Walnut

  • Wheat

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