Food Allergy Test 食物敏感測試

Are the foods you eat making you sick ?

Research and clinical studies have shown that a multitude of medical conditions can be caused by underlying food allergies. Asthma, arthritis, chronic fatigue, constipation, depression, diarrhea, eczema, migraine, PMS, recurrent infection, skin rashes, weight problems, for example, all have their roots, in part, embedded in our responses to the foods we eat.

日常的食物對健康影響是這麼大 !

研究和臨床報告指出食物過敏可能是多種常見頑疾之引發原因。例如哮喘, 關節炎, 長期疲倦, 便秘, 抑?, 經常性腹瀉, 濕疹, 偏頭痛, 經前候群症, 重複性發炎, 皮膚紅疹, 身體過重或過輕... 都有?它們形成的原因。 而累積和潛服的食物過敏反應, 很可能就是這些慢性病的根源。

Food Allergy Test :
Aller-Food Check kit is a quick and painless blood collection procedure.
You will receive your personal Food Allergy Report and Rotation Diet Plan within 14 days. The report will provide information on antibody levels against 96 discrete foods. They include foods in several different categories: Dairy, Seafood, Poultry, Meat, Vegetables, Fruits, and other misc. items including coffee, honey etc. You should follow the customized rotation diet plan which accompany with your report. Abstain from the reactive foods, and start rotating the foods that are in the low or no-reaction category.

Aller-Food Check gives you the assurance of quality and reliable as all tests are completed by US BioTek Laboratories in the United States. US BioTek offers the most accurate food allergy testing - each patient's test is conducted twice to ensure accuracy and reliability. It is customized for Asian community with 96 asian food panel.

食物過敏測驗:

食物過敏測試配套是一個簡單和無痛的血液採集程序。


你將在14天內收到你個人的食物過敏報告和交替飲食計劃。報告將列出您對96種不同食物的過敏反應。 這些食物包括：乳酪品類，海鮮類，家禽類，肉類，蔬菜類，水果類和其它類別例如咖啡，和蜂蜜等等。 你應該依照為您提供的交替飲食計劃進食, 戒除有強烈反應的食物, 而交替食用只有低反應或沒有反應的食物。

食物過敏測試能給您可靠的品質保証。 所有的測試在美國 US BioTek Laboratories 進行。 我們提供最準確的食物過敏測試: 每位客戶的樣本將進行兩次重複測試, 務求達到可靠和準確的結果及針對亞洲區而設的 96 種亞洲食物測試結果。
　

What are allergies?

Von Pirquet, a Viennese physician, first used the word allergy in 1906 to mean “altered reactivity.” He described allergic people as having excessive responses to something in their environment. These environmental allergens, which are virtually limitless in number, can trigger our immune system into battle, and give rise to allergic (or hypersensitivity) reactions.
In fact, almost anything can stimulate our immune system into action. Certain foods, pollens, animal dander, molds, yeasts, and bacteria, as well as many chemicals, are the most commonly recognized allergens.
Immunoglobulins (antibodies) are produced by our immune system against foreign invaders that are deemed to be dangerous. Antibodies mediate significant inflammatory processes as part of this defensive action. Allergic symptoms are the direct result of these antibody caused processes.

Allergic reactions to common foods such as milk, wheat, corn, soy, citrus, tomatoes and peanuts may be mistakenly attributed to passing viral infections or recurrent “colds”. The relationship between the many common symptoms (including fatigue, headache, anxiety, as well as itchy runny nose and puffy eyelids) and the allergies that caused them may go unrecognized for years. Increased stress, recurrent infections or declining health may add to the burden of chronic allergies. Over the years, arthritis, gastrointestinal disorders, autoimmune disease, eczema, and migraines, to name a few serious conditions linked with food allergies, can develop into chronic conditions if the offending allergens are not discovered and removed from the diet.

過敏是什麼？
Von 維也納醫生Von Pirquet於1906年，首度使用過敏﹝allergy﹞一詞來表示“改變的反應﹝altered reactivity﹞”，他描述過敏的人會對環境中的某些物質產生過度反應。事實上，環境中有無限量的過敏原﹝allergen﹞，它們會引發免疫系統的戰鬥，並且造成過敏反應﹝allergic reaction or hypersensitivity﹞。
實際上，幾乎所有的東西都會刺激免疫系統發生反應。某些食物、花粉、動物毛屑、黴菌、酵母菌、細菌和許多化學物質等，都是最常見的過敏原。免疫系統在對抗每一種特定的抗原時，會產生特定的免疫球蛋白﹝immunoglobulin﹞，也就是抗體﹝antibody﹞。一般認為這些抗體對於人體代謝具有危險性，或者可能擾亂我們的代謝。

抗體促成重大的發炎過程是防禦作用的一部份。而過敏症狀則是這些由抗體造成的過程的直接結果。人體對於一般食物如牛奶、小麥、玉米、大豆、柑橘、蕃茄和花生所產生的過敏反應，可能被誤認為是一時的病毒感染或是再發的感冒。許多常見的過敏症狀都包括疲勞、頭痛、焦慮、鼻子癢、流鼻水和眼皮腫脹，而引起這些症狀的過敏可能隱藏多年不被發現。壓力大、反覆發生的感染或健康衰退都可能加劇慢性過敏的嚴重性。多年的關節炎、腸胃道疾病、自體免疫疾病、濕疹和偏頭痛等，都是和食物過敏有關的一些重大疾病。如果無法找出造成這些疾病的過敏原，並將它們從飲食中刪除，那麼就可能發展出慢性疾病。

Why do Allergies Develop?

Imbalanced or inadequate diets, stress, genetic predisposition, infections and inflammation, chemicals, drugs, environmental pollutants and toxins are all possible contributing factors in the development of allergies.
Research has shown that these causative factors can weaken both digestion as well as the protective defenses in our GI tract and lungs allowing for allergens to more easily confront our beleaguered immune system.

過敏是怎樣發生的？

營養不均衡或營養不足的飲食、壓力、遺傳傾向、感染和發炎、化學物質、藥物、環境污染物質和毒素等，都可能是造成過敏的因素。

研究結果顯示這些造成過敏的因素可能同時削弱消化功能以及腸胃道和肺部的防禦能力，讓抗原更容易入侵受困的免疫系統。

Who Has Allergies?

Almost everyone knows someone who suffers from symptoms of allergy, including skin rashes, diarrhea, migraine headaches, irritable bowel, runny nose, wheezing, or a host of other common uncomfortable and illness. Conservative estimates imply that as many as 25 percent of the population have significant allergies to some types of foods, chemicals, or inhalants. The true incidence of allergy and intolerance may be considerably higher if we include the less dramatic symptoms of occasional anxiety, joint aches, generalized fatigue, and water retention as well.

誰有過敏？

幾乎每一個人都認識患有過敏症狀的人，這些症狀包括氣喘噓噓、流鼻水、腸道敏感、偏頭痛、皮膚疹，和其他眾多常見的不適症狀或健康衰退的問題。保守估計，大約有25%的人口對食物、化學物質或吸入的物質發生嚴重的過敏現象。如果包括較不嚴重的症狀如偶爾發生的焦慮、關節疼痛、一般的疲勞和水分閉止﹝water retention﹞時，過敏或敏感的發生率會高出更多。

There are two major types of allergic reactions:

Type I:Immediate onset IgE antibody
Type III:Delayed onset IgG antibody
　

Type I or Immediate Onset Reactions:

This type of allergic reaction, mediated via IgE antibodies typically occurs immediately after contact with an allergen. High levels of IgE antibodies reacting to specific allergens can cause serious health problems. This type of allergy is easily recognized because it involves quick and dramatic symptoms. Possible symptoms include skin rashes, itching lips, swelling throat (making breathing more difficult), hives, bloating, abrupt diarrhea, stomach or abdominal pain and asthma.


Type III or Delayed Onset Reactions:

The delayed type of reaction is much less obvious and thus more difficult to discover; the reaction may occur up to several hours or days after contact with the allergen. This type of allergy is often considered “hidden allergies”. Chronic fatigue, arthritis, hives, eczema, headaches, water retention, irritable bowel, and many other chronic symptoms are often the legacy of unrealized and untreated IgG mediated allergic reactions.

過敏反應的兩個主要類型：

第一型：立即發生型，IgE抗體
第三型：延遲發生型，IgG抗體

第一型或立即發生的反應：

這一類型的過敏反應需透過IgE的作用，通常在接觸抗原後立即發生。大量的IgE抗體和特定的抗原反應時，可能引起嚴重的過敏反應。這一類型的反應可能包括喉嚨腫脹﹝造成呼吸困難﹞、蕁麻疹、腹脹、胃痛或腹痛、氣喘和突然的腹瀉。

第三型或延遲發生的反應：

延遲型的反應遠較不明顯，通常要在接觸抗原幾個小時或幾天之後才會出現反應，因此很難被發現。在多數的情況下，延遲型的反應是和食物過敏有關的敏感症。本類型的過敏通常被認為是“隱藏的過敏”。長期的疲勞、關節炎、蕁麻疹、濕疹、頭痛、水分閉止、腸道敏感和其他許多慢性的症狀都可能源自於未被察覺和治療的IgG媒介型過敏反應。