Get and Stay Well – Diagnostics

Allergy & Food Intolerance Testing

When talking about a healthy diet it is often overlooked that this is not always a matter of general advice such as “be sure to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables”.

What is good and beneficial food for one may not be suitable at all for somebody else. At the Dubai Herbal and Treatment Centre we have many years of experience in diagnosing food intolerances and food allergies.
Especially people with digestion symptoms like gas, bloating, constipation or diarrhoea and other more nonspecific symptoms such as fatigue, headaches, sinusitis, cough, sneezing, weight gain, water retention or eczema and rashes very often suffer from food intolerances and food allergies.

Our immune system has different types of reactions necessary to defeat bacteria, virus, fungus and other things that are not good for our body. But sometimes, due to lifestyle, medication or other unknown reasons our immune system can start overreacting. In this case the immune system starts overreacting to food. There are two ways this can happen, through the fast track (IgE, the food allergy) which usually triggers quite immediate and very severe symptoms like rashes and asthma for example, and the slow track (IgG, the food intolerance) with symptoms than can occur even 72h after eating that food. That is the reason why just by looking at what you have eaten it is almost impossible to figure out foods for which you have an intolerance!

Food intolerances and food allergies can be diagnosed by a blood test.
Depending on the results and symptoms, it is sometimes not enough to only adjust the diet accordingly and avoid the food for a certain period of time. Often it is also necessary to add supplements, probiotics and herbal medication to the treatment plan in order to achieve good results.