{"id":5542,"date":"2009-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5542"},"modified":"2009-06-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T00:00:00","slug":"alcat-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/alcat-test\/","title":{"rendered":"ALCAT to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/wp\/images\/food_test_kit.jpg' align='left' hspace='10' vspace='5'alt='The ALCAT Test can tell you which foods to avoid to improve your asthma and allergy symptoms.'>As <a href='http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/154901.php' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'> Medical News Today<\/a> reports, asthma and allergy medications have been under increased scrutiny lately &#8211; and the heat may shift patients in another treatment direction.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the FDA requested that Merck upgrade the warning about the psychotic side effects of <a href='http:\/\/www.medilexicon.com\/drugs\/singulair.php' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'> Singulair<\/a>. In addition, the FDA also announced that Zicam, a popular cold remedy, may cause a loss of smell. <\/p>\n<p>As doubt is cast on the safety of popular medications, manufacturers of the ALCAT Test suggest going back to the basics.  Hippocrates echoes their suggestion: &#8216;Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>The <a href='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/foodallergy-test-kit.asp'>ALCAT Test<\/a> is a simple blood test that is used to predict foods that cause gastrointestinal disturbances and dermatological symptoms. Researchers from the Univery of Pavia (Italy), Polyclinic reported &#8211; also last week &#8211; that a staggering 54% of patients with GI problems and 86% of patients with chronic urticaria and dermatits experienced marked improvement by avoiding the foods indicated by the ALCAT Test. <\/p>\n<p>Rapidly gaining recognition as an effective and natural tool in avoiding chronic inflammation and allergy problems, the ALCAT Test offers allergy and asthma sufferers the hope for relief &#8211; without the use of questionable drugs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Medical News Today reports, asthma and allergy medications have been under increased scrutiny lately &#8211; and the heat may shift patients in another treatment direction. Last week, the FDA requested that Merck upgrade the warning about the psychotic side&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}