Blood test a possible screener for HFI and monitor of FFdiet

[sonas]

Hello everyone,
Happy New Year to you all from your newest member! I joined due to my daughter’s suspected HFI diagnosis and wanted to contribute something to your forum.

While researching online, I discovered a research project that states that a blood test showing elevated Carbohydrate-Deficient Transferrin (CDT) can be a strong, inexpensive, accurate indicator of HFI diagnosis. It can also be invaluable as a monitor of how well-balanced your Fructose-Free diet is, for those of you who are already diagnosed. Apparently, CDT blood tests are normally used by doctors to assess alcohol consumption!

Here are the links:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17515832
www.nature.com/articles/pr2007179

Also, I came across a paper before Christmas about the importance to ingesting DHA fatty acid on a daily basis to remedy the loss of memory and recall due to fructose intolerance.

I’d love to hear your feedback on these papers.

Best wishes,
Sonas

[tummyache]

Thank you Sonas for the article on CDT testing. Somehow I had missed it. I take 900mg of DHA which I buy at Walmart and can actually tell a difference when we run out of it. So, it is making a difference memory-wise for me in my 70's.

[allison]

Hi Sonas

Thank you for sharing this info. Do you have the link for the DHA paper?

Allison

[ukbill]

This is amazing information.

Much reading to do!

Sonas the link to the DHA information would be wonderful please.

[sonas]

Hi folks,
Thanks for your replies.
Apologies! Despite searching online, I can't locate the exact medical document that I read regarding DHA and fructose intolerance but this one is similar:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160422091900.htm


Probably only relevant for those who ingested fructose in the recent past, ie newly diagnosed HFIers...
Best wishes,
Sonas

[ukbill]

OK bad news about the blood test for a quick diagnosis.

Its a test used to detect a problem and then allows medical professionals to narrow down the area of search to one of many 100's of conditions, but not in any way capable of pointing to HFI as a diagnostic test.

So as such the test will not be of any use to predict or test for HFI in anyone.

The DHA food supplement is as yet unproven to help.. however if you feel it helps go for it!

If you cannot get sea foods in your diet then taking a supplement like this is obviously far better than nothing.

For most of us in the Northern hemisphere we are almost all deficient in vitamin D3.. health people will tell you you only need 15 min of sunlight a day to get enough D3.. however they do not say over what % of the body this is needed, just hands, face or over the whole body??.

I prefer to take a small (tiny) D3 in olive oil capsule every morning than dance naked in whatever sun we get here in the UK for 15 min a day! Given we frequently do not see the sun for weeks on end in the winter this is clearly not going to happen on average for at least 6 months of the year. if it did I would be not seeing the sunshine for a few years until my prison sentence for said naked dancing has run its course

Sometimes a food supplement can be a lot easier than the "natural" alternative

Keep smiling everyone

[gaga]

I have not been able to tolerate olive oil st all, and I have noticed more fish oil bottles have it in the ingredients now. Any ideas where to find DHA without it?

[ukbill]

May 21, 2020 17:23:59 GMT -5 gaga said:

I have not been able to tolerate olive oil st all, and I have noticed more fish oil bottles have it in the ingredients now. Any ideas where to find DHA without it?

Olive oil is 100% HFI safe. If you have issues with it then they are not HFI related. I have a problem with Soya and beans in general.. however that is not HFI related.

Have you been diagnosed? if so what did they say? what tests did they do?

Like everything its just a case of reading labels,, and more labels.. and yet more labels.. It's and HFI thing you soon learn to read the label of every single prepared food item every single time you buy it.