Food Intolerance

At Aqua-Tox we offer food intolerance testing with advice in relation to sensitivities and allergies to food.

Common food intolerance symptoms include:

• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Bloating
• Migraines
• Fatigue
• Asthma, Eczema & other skin disorders

Developed by Cambridge Nutritional Sciences, we offer the foodprint service which utilises state of the art immunoassay microarray technology to detect food-specific IgG antibodies. The proceedure is painless and safe. The therapist will extract blood from a thumb/finger pin prick and send off the blood sample to the lab for testing.

Food extracts are ‘printed’ onto nitrocellulose ‘pads’ on a glass microscope slide, together with calibration standards and controls. A blood sample provided by the patient is diluted and dispensed onto each printed microarray. Food IgG antibodies, if present, bind to the food extracts and the results are measured by a high-resolution scanner, before being calibrated against the standards using the FoodPrint reporting software to give quantitative results. This software then produces a tailor-made printout of the final food IgG antibody result for each food on the requested food panel and comes with a patient guidebook. Lab tests have options for testing 40 to over 200 foods and results are received within 10 working days.

A full list of foods covered in each of the lab tests can be found here FOODPANELS CHART