best way to get a general food intolerance test done?

[mitsuko]

My two children (3 & 4) don't appear to have any allergic reactions to food, but their energy levels are sometimes very jittery - poor concentration, can't stay still for love nor money, manic jumping all over the place, even though we get lots of regular exercise and have a reasonable diet. I'm wondering two things - maybe there are more additives in their diet than I realise and I need to be even more careful, plus identify what might be a problem, but also I was reading a thread on here where someone said their children react to fruit acids and get jumpy, which made me think. Is there a reliable way to get a general intolerance test done?

My dd had rashes and allergies took her to the NHS dietician and they said there was no reliable intolerance test. It doesn't sound like an allergy to me- are you sure it's not just normal 3 and 4 year old high spirits?

I used to think so, and that I'd just have to put up with it, but when they started nursery school I got loads of comments from the teachers about how on earth do I cope and they did seem way over the top compared to other kids, but there wasn't any suggestion that it was ADD or anything like that - so I'm just wondering. And they can both concentrate if they are really rivetted by something, like Shaun the Sheep

There is no test for intolerances. My ds has very strong reactions to both milk and MSG, the reaction causes bleeding in his gut and lead to anaemia it was so severe. But I had to work with the dietician to slowly go through various exclusion diets to find out what was causing the reaction. Allergies can be detected using blood and skin prick tests. I hth

There is help out there for going through exclusion diets, but it really should be guided by a dietician.

I hope you get to solve the riddle.

Many years ago I used this company. york test

DS and, ahem, my dog, have had the York Test for intolerances. I think is good as an indication of possible intolerances but its results should not be taken extremely serious as there is a good chance of false positive (and negatives) particularly in young children.

DS showed intolerance to 97 of the 113 allergens tested, we can not remove everything that came positive in the test without reducing his diet to mushrooms, meats and apricots. So... we ordered a RAST for those foods that were in the +3 & +4 scale. Most of them were then confirmed as allergies.

However, I can kill my dog with turkey but the York test missed that completely although showed positive for things that she can eat without problem.

...and before anyone suspects I am an allergy hypochondriac... we ordered the York test for DS when after waiting for months for an allergy testing appointment with the NHS, my dog was offered a better allergy testing and treatment than DS

Would agree that they seemed to pick out a huge amount of foods for me, but didn't pick out oranges as I had been expected.

When I was 17yrs I was very ill and the doctor referred me to a complementary medical doctor he did a food intolerant test on me. Very weird it was a machine with a measure counter and he put this little bit on metal on my large toe he then up little glass bottles of different ingredients into the machine and what do you now my body was intolerant to lactose. Took it out of my diet and I within 3 months was fine after +6 months put it back in and never looked back.

Not many Doctors will refer you to complementary doctors but my Consultant and GP were at a dead end and I'd nearly died so through anything would help as they had no idea what was wrong with me and I'd been sick for 4 months and in hospital for 3 of that before being discharged and attended my local Complementary medical doctor he's a Hayley street doctor has several surgeries around UK.

You can make private appointments but you will have to pay as the NHS don't cover the charges but mum tells me my treatment and remedies cost her about £60.00 - not bad - before I went I couldn't hardly walk, slept for over 22 hours a day and was turning into a veggie.