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What Does My Comprehensive Stool Analysis Test Report Indicate?

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Posted on Wed, 8 Jul 2015
Question: I love bananas, and was eating them every day, sometimes two a day. I had an fecal matter allergy test that showed I had a allergy/reaction to them. Could the test show positive because I was eating so many? Is there any chance I could go back to eating them, but just occasionally? Will I outgrow the allergy, if I eat once in a while only? It's been over a year since the test, ans i am pretty much banana free.
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Answered by Dr. Drkaushal85 (1 hour later)
Brief Answer:
Allergy tests are not much reliable.

Detailed Answer:
Thanks for your question on HCM.
I can understand your concern.
Honestly speaking, such allergy tests are not reliable.
Chances of false positive results are very high.
I have seen many people who are having positive allergy test and doing well, not having any problem after eating food which was allergic to them according to the test.
So we should not rely only on allergic test results.
Clinical symptoms are also important.
If you are having diarrhoea, vomiting, abdominal pain, skin rashes and itching after eating such food than allergy can be suspected.
So please let me know
1. Do you have above mentioned symptoms?
2. For what reasons you undergone feacal allergy testing?
3. What were your symptoms at the time of test?
Please reply me answers of above asked questions, so that I can guide you better.
I will be happy to help you further.
Wish you good health.
Thanks.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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Follow up: Dr. Drkaushal85 (2 hours later)
Have no symptoms as you list. Had the fecal test, along with something else I cannot remember, to check for pancreus (sp) problems. Just pain on right side under rib cage, and shortness of breath. Since both may be signs of allergy to something, trying to track it down. have had many tests, ultrasound, mri, ct, and just had pulmonary stress test workup. Everything normal. Doc giving up, says get another opinion. had gall bladder removed in 2004. How do I find out if I am short on vitamin e and calcium? have not had vitamin and mineral test. Do such tests exist? Are they reliable? Might they show something?
see my previous questions/ answers from other docs.
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Answered by Dr. Drkaushal85 (48 minutes later)
Brief Answer:
Yes, tests for calcium are available.

Detailed Answer:
Thanks for your follow up question on HCM.
I can understand your concern.
By your history and description, I don't think you are having allergic cause.
Please let me know
1. Does your problem solve after stopping bananas?
2. Do you still have pain under rib cage?
3. Have you ever tested for serum total IgE?
Tests for serum calcium are available. You can go for total serum calcium, serum ionized calcium, vitamin d3 level etc.
No test is available for vitamin E estimation.
Please reply me answers of above asked questions, so that I can guide you better.
I will be happy to help you further.
Wish you good health. Thanks.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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Follow up: Dr. Drkaushal85 (21 hours later)
have not had bananas for a long time. shortness of breath just goes on and on. Some days it seems to be better, other days worse, which is why i wonder if it might be food related. my last big blood test was august 2014. the iron serum was lightly high, at 164 ug/dl. i donated a pint of blood to bring it down, was retested months later and it was near normal. ton of things on the blood test, but not the serum total IgE. have glucose 94, uric acid 4.7, creatinine 79, eGFR 81, sodium 142, potassium 4.3, phosphorus 3., choride 105, protein total 6.9, albumin 4.5, globulin 2.4, bilirubin .6, alkaline phosphate 55, all supposed to be in normal range. the RBC was high at 5.33, hemoglobin high at 16.2, hematocrit high at 47.9
but doc dismissed these as close enough. Might the one you asked for be under different initial/name?
I try as hard as possible to be dairy free because to much makes me feel washed out and lazy. However, it's in a lot of things. Still I try.
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Answered by Dr. Drkaushal85 (34 minutes later)
Brief Answer:
You might be having lactose intolerance.

Detailed Answer:
Thanks for your follow up question on HCM.
I can understand your concern.
I have gone through all the blood reports, but serum IgE was not done in your case.
It is marker of allergic disease.
By your history and description, I don't think you are having allergic cause.
Because food allergy will cause skin reaction like itching, rashes before breathlessness.
Lactose intolerance is another possibility. But it is present from childhood. It can not develop at later years of life.
So please let me know
1. Since how many days you are having these symptoms?
2. Do you have stressful life?
3. Do you have burning epigastric pain or burping?
Please reply me answers of above asked questions, so that I can guide you better.
I will be happy to help you further.
Wish you good health . Thanks.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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Follow up: Dr. Drkaushal85 (24 hours later)
I've had the breathlessness since october/november 2013. I know so well because my previous doc moved at the end of 2013, before obama health care came into affect, and I spoke to her before she left. Then it was barely a problem, but very very slowly it has got worse. Can't be so specific about the pain under the ribs, but I think about the same time. I should add pain under ribs seems to be worse on right side. So I think somehow they are related? Maybe? No burping, and I am not under stress, happily retired.

A question. urinary tract infection. Twice in the last 1/1/2 years I felt I have had one, took the over the counter AZO test. It showed nitrates positve, and leukacytes (sp) negative. I went to doc and they said both negative. I find that weird, for it to happen two times on the home test.
I was once diagnosed with a cyst on the right kidney top. Might that somehow cause pain? Or might it change somehow to cause pain or deflate to cause pain?
I'm just grasping at straws.
Please don't tell me it is all in my head. Last time a doc told me that, ten years ago, by the time it was really diagnosed and I got to the surgeon, he told me I had hours, no more then a day to live. Very close call. Don't want to go through that again.
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Answered by Dr. Drkaushal85 (1 hour later)
Brief Answer:
Get done PFT (Pulmonary Function Test).

Detailed Answer:
Thanks for your follow up question on HCM.
I can understand your concern.
Get done repeat PFT (Pulmonary Function Test) with bronchodilator reversibility.
If reversibility is significant than you might be having allergic bronchitis.
Please let me know
1. Were you taking any drugs for breathlessness?
2. Before how many days you have gone through CT, MRI, ultrasound?
Please reply me answers of above asked questions, so that I can guide you better.
I will be happy to help you further. Wish you good health. Thanks.
Note: For further information on diet changes to reduce allergy symptoms or to boost your immunity, Ask here.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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What Does My Comprehensive Stool Analysis Test Report Indicate?

Brief Answer: Allergy tests are not much reliable. Detailed Answer: Thanks for your question on HCM. I can understand your concern. Honestly speaking, such allergy tests are not reliable. Chances of false positive results are very high. I have seen many people who are having positive allergy test and doing well, not having any problem after eating food which was allergic to them according to the test. So we should not rely only on allergic test results. Clinical symptoms are also important. If you are having diarrhoea, vomiting, abdominal pain, skin rashes and itching after eating such food than allergy can be suspected. So please let me know 1. Do you have above mentioned symptoms? 2. For what reasons you undergone feacal allergy testing? 3. What were your symptoms at the time of test? Please reply me answers of above asked questions, so that I can guide you better. I will be happy to help you further. Wish you good health. Thanks.