Food Sensitivity 1 + Food Sensitivity 2 Lab

Assess food sensitivity to 180 commonly consumed foods.

Lab Preparation:

Fasting is not required for the Food Sensitivity tests. Vibrant America does not recommend a “food challenge” if you are already aware that you have adverse symptoms to that food.

However, if the food has been removed for a significant amount of time (which is highly variable among individuals), it may affect your test results. If you are taking steroids, immunosuppressive medications, biologic agents, or other immunmodulating medications, you may not get an accurate result of your antibody levels. If you are taking any of these medications you may get falsely lower or falsely higher antibody results.

For this reason, to ensure the most accurate results, your ordering provider may recommend testing 14-30 days after discontinuing these medications, or they may recommend testing Total Immunoglobulins (Total IgE, Total IgM, Total IgA, and Total IgG) before testing specific antibody levels to each food. Consult with your ordering provider regarding whether to continue or discontinue any dietary supplements or medications before your test, or whether to test Total Immunoglobulins before your test.

Lists of immunosuppressive medications and biologic agents can be found HERE and HERE.