Product Description

Elisa 90 Food Intolerance Test

This Food Intolerance test has been especially formulated for home use. You will be provided with everything you need to carry out the test including full instructions – there will be no additional charges whatsoever.

This Elisa food intolerance test offers a greater number of foodstuffs up to 90 in total listed below:

The test procedure is very simple – just use the included lancet to take a finger prick blood sample and add this to the special absorbent pad. You then return the sample with your completed questionnaire and payment form to us in the pre-paid envelope*. Please note that the blood sample will remain viable for testing for approximately 12-14 days so please send the sample back to us as soon as possible after it is obtained. For overseas customers, please ensure you send the sample back using an expedited service so that we receive it within a maximum of 7 days of the sample being obtained. Once received, your sample is then analysed by a specialist laboratory in Switzerland that will identify those foods that react and cause an intolerance.

*Please note that the pre-paid envelope is only supplied to UK customers. If you are located outside the UK you will need to pay to return the pack to us.

A full detailed report will be sent to you approximately 5-7 business days after receipt of your blood sample. The foods causing an intolerance will be identified at three different degrees of intolerance (low or 1st degree, medium or 2nd degree, severe or 3rd degree). A typical result would be to identify the food that causes the problem and then advise what action should be taken. For example a severe or 3rd degree level of intolerance it would be recommended that you do not eat that food for three months and then to slowly re-introduce that food eating it just once in each of the next 2 weeks of the fourth month and then once a week for the fifth month and by the 6 month you should be able to eat that food item normally. The 64 foods tested cover all the main foods covering meat, dairy, fish, nuts, fruits, vegetables,tea, coffee etc.

Is this test suitable for everyone?
It is advised that you shouldn’t take the test if any of the following apply:

1. When there’s an alteration of the immune system, due to a disease: autoimmune diseases, immunodeficiencies, Acute Infections, cancers, or due to a therapy: steroid therapies or anti-rejection therapies.
2. If you are taking medications having a direct effect on the immunological system (cortisone, steroids, antibiotics, anaesthetics , lithium, lead, growth factors, etc.) and if under vaccines treatment.
3. Children under 36 months of age shouldn’t perform the test.
4. People suffering from evident eating disorders: anorexia or bulimia shouldn’t perform the test.

Furthermore, since Intolerance is dose-related, it is recommended, in the days before the examination, not to change the normal diet habit as it could be detected intolerance to a specific food and / or additive due to the excessive consumption of such food which is only occasionally eaten.