Snaklog

Had hospital appointment this morning at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with Mr King, who is one of the consultants. I wasn’t kept waiting too long. Had a very informal chat about how I had been over the last few months. Told him about wheat free diet and taking daily amounts of normacol and that apart from the recent bout I hadn’t been too bad.

He suggested I have a barium enema; last one was five years ago; to give them a base line on the condition of the lining of my stomach. He told me I had IBS and diverticular disease and to carry on with the wheat free diet and to continue managing my condition as I do now.

Suggested drinking chamomile or peppermint tea when I have another attack as they both have anti spasmodic properties that are more gentle than traditional remedies such as mebeverine or spasmonal.

I finally got round to booking my first telephone consultation with YorkTest last week, a very pleasant lady called today and discussed my results. I had already dropped many of the foods from my diet and have noticed improvements over the last few weeks. One of the foods was yeast which is in a large amount of foods including vinegar, although I can have spirit or distilled vinegar.

Advice given was to avoid foods with a score of 1 for 3 months this included Wheat, peanuts, gluten, cows milk and buckwheat.

Foods with a score of 2 to be avoided for 6 months included Egg yolk and yeast

A score of 3 mean’t to avoid for 9 months this was just egg white.

After the times had passed she advised trying small quantities of each to see if there was any adverse reaction, if no reaction should try consuming normally again but only once in every 4 days.

I’ll see how I go an report back

I had the chance to study my results over the weekend and to have a good read of the literature sent by YorkTest.

The literature they sent included:

Leaflet on Egg intolerance
Leaflet on Yeast intolerance
Details of the 2 telephone consultations with a qualified nutritionist, the first suggested early on with a follow up a few weeks later.
Results guidebook which is a step by step guide to making the most of your results. The format is laid out to show the four steps involved in making a plan to improve your health and diet. Steps covered include getting prepared, planning a diet and the initial nutritionist consultation, starting the new diet and finally reviewing your progress and taking the follow up consultation.
12 week food diary where you record what you eat at breakfast, lunch, dinner and any snacks. Each day you also record how you are feeling. The diary also gave a tip each week and also posed the questions any new symptoms and have you eliminated all your problem foods. The majority of this functionality is included in Snaklog.

All the literature appeared to be of a high standard and was easy to read and understand. It’s probably best to read all the info a couple of times to make sure you really understand it. I would advise taking the leaflets with you on any shopping trips, in my case the Egg and Yeast intolerance as these can both hide in food stuffs under a variety of different name.

My next step is to take up my first telephone consultation. I’ll report later on that.

A very nice lady from YorkTest called me today to explain that they had the results of the stage one test. She asked me a couple of questions about any symptoms I had and if I had already made any dietary changes.

I told her I had been diagnosed with IBS and that I had already cut wheat from my diet. She explained that the part one food intolerance test had come back positive indicating a food intolerance and that I could pay a further £245 to have a FoodScan 113 done this would indicate which foods from a possible 113 I have shown an intolerance to on a scale of 1 to 4.

I would also be able to have a telephone consultation with a nutritionist who would be able to help me set up an elimination diet. I said I wanted to proceed with the FoodScan 113 test and would call her later with credit card details. Following payment I should receive results within 10 days.