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How does one explain antibody production to amaranth when the patient doesn’t eat it?

Chris Kresser: I’ve talked to Cyrex about this and also other foods. We’ve had patients who react to teff, for example, and they’ve never eaten Ethiopian food or injera, and they don’t eat any gluten-free cereals or packaged foods that would have teff in them. What Cyrex basically said is that with a lot of these newer foods, that there may be polyreactive antigen production. The patient may be producing antibodies to something else that also … like, reacting with amaranth even though they didn’t eat amaranth. The antibody production wasn’t originally directed to amaranth, it was directed to something else, but it’s polyreacting with amaranth or whatever the other food is. That would seem less likely if the patient had no other reactions to any other foods on the test and the only one was amaranth, but if there are other things that they’re reacting to, it could be this case of polyreactive antibody production.

 

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