Allergy & Intolerance Testing (UK-Wide) – Understand Your Reactions & Gut Health
Many symptoms like bloating, fatigue, eczema, migraines, joint pain, or IBS are often blamed on allergies or intolerances — but the real root cause is frequently in the gut.
As a UK-based functional nutritionist, I offer a range of diagnostic tests, including food intolerance and allergy testing, but I also help you understand if these symptoms may be linked to deeper issues like SIBO, histamine intolerance, leaky gut, or hormone imbalances.
Before investing in any test, I always recommend a short discovery call so we can assess what’s truly needed.
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Not all reactions are true allergies or intolerances.
Many people with ongoing symptoms are dealing with gut inflammation or immune dysregulation, not a food intolerance. Conditions such as SIBO, Candida, poor digestion, poor gut health, hormones, stress and poor dietary choices can all be a potential contributor.
Let’s look at the full picture with a functional medicine approach before spending £300+ on a test that may not provide the answers you need.
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What is the difference between allergy and intolerance?Â
A food-specific IgG reaction should not be confused with food allergies,
nor other types of food intolerances.
These include:
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Enzyme deficiencies e.g. lactose (milk sugar) intolerance
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Coeliac disease; requires lifelong avoidance of gluten
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Chemical sensitivities e.g. histamine, tyramine, sulphites etc
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A food intolerance can occur when the body has difficulty digesting certain foods. When this occurs over time, large food particles (proteins) may enter the bloodstream and this can cause inflammation. Both my allergy tests and food intolerance tests use a small amount of blood to detect the antibodies. This is far more precise than hair or bioresonance (energy wave) testing, which has no clear evidence to back its claims.
When foods and drinks are digested, the proteins within them are broken down into smaller fragments for easy absorption into the body.
Larger fragments can pass through without breaking down, and sometimes the body reacts by attacking them using antibodies
called Immunoglobulin G’s (IgG).
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I offer a range of tests to enhance nutritional consultations, including Food Intolerance Testing, Allergy Testing, gut repair, and diagnostic Health Tests.
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If you’re unsure where to start, please book a free 15-minute chat. This is the best way to find out whether allergy/intolerance testing, stool testing, or other approaches would be most effective for you.
Food intolerance can cause a wide range of disruptive symptoms such as digestive problems, eczema, migraines and headaches, fatigue, depression and low mood, joint pains and sinusitis.
It is always recommended that any concerns are discussed with a doctor first, before taking a food intolerance test. This is to fully investigate the potential causes, which may include investigations for coeliac disease and/or lactose intolerance, and provide the medical follow-up required. It is a fact of life, however, that in many cases there is no medical explanation for symptoms such as these.
For example, medically unexplained symptoms or ‘functional symptoms’ where doctors can’t find a problem with the body that might be the cause, account for up to a fifth of all GP consultations in the UK. These include symptoms such as tiredness, chronic fatigue (ME), depression, anxiety, IBS, fibromyalgia, headaches and migraines, skin rashes and joint pains, runny nose and sinusitis.
Many people with these problems will be given the all-clear by their doctor, and they strongly suspect that food is the root cause of their issues.
Working with me, a nutritional therapist, we can obtain results from a food intolerance test to identify food triggers and work together to create a dietary plan that balances existing problems, along with an elimination diet.
I can offer a range of tests to suit the individual.
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Allergy Testing & More
I can offer a range of blood tests to test for allergies, but also other gut tests including comprehensive stool testing,
SIBO testing, lactose intolerance, H Pylori, Coeliac testing and more.