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    Gastrointestinal Health

    Prevention notes:

        Observe strict personal hygiene habits
        Eat cooked food, when outside your home
        Wash fresh fruits & vegetables with soap & water
        Avoid drinking potentially contaminated surface water
        Before overseas travel, contact the CDC for tips
        Restrict pets to designated parts of the home
        Wash hands after touching pets

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    Gastrointestinal Health Panel™
    The GI Health Panel™ is a non-invasive screen of the gastro-intestinal tract and its function. It includes at least 15-22 individual, but related tests. Stool and saliva samples are submitted by the patient after home collection.

     

    Logic of testing
    To insure high sensitivity and specificity of pathogenic organism detection, Diagnos-Techs employs a variety of methods in the GI Health Panel™ tests. These tests utilize proven biochemical and state of the art immunological and other methods. The panel includes:

        Pathogen screening: bacteria, fungi, yeast, and various parasites.

        Digestion related screens: enzyme levels and immunochemical markers for intolerance to common offending foods.
        Intestinal function markers to evaluate irritation and inflammation; markers indicate overall status of gut immunity and integrity, i.e. occult blood, etc.

    The GI Health Panel™ strikes a balance between comprehensive screening and economy by bundling appropriate individual tests that would otherwise cost over $700 at current prices. All the tests are insurer reimbursed with the appropriate provider documentation.

    Advantages & Benefits

        Non-invasive sampling: saliva and stool
        Home collection: no office visit
        Economical and insurance reimbursable
        Comprehensive: detects a broad spectrum of common pathogens and includes digestion efficiency evaluation
        Improved wellness: general GI complaints identified and resolved
        Modular: retesting of one or several abnormal findings is available without repeating the entire panel

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    Common applications of this panel
    Individuals with chronic and vague GI symptoms including:

        Frequent bloating, gas, cramping, and constipation
        Frequent travel within US and/or overseas
        Frequent eating outside the home
        Homosexuals
        Food handlers - to protect others
        Food preparers at restaurants, homes, schools, etc.
        Institutionalized individuals
        Uniformed services
        Dormitory Residents - common quarters
        Children that go to daycare centers

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    Who needs the GI Health Panel™?
    To determine if the GI Panel™ is appropriate for your gastro-intestinal and other health problems, consult with your health care provider.

    The Gastrointestinal Health Panels™ The gastrointestinal tract is essentially an external part of the body. This is the reason we do not have to sterilize our food, but only be sure it is clean and wholesome. Presently, the risk of being infected or infested by pathogenic organisms through food and water is ever increasing. This is due to several reasons: immigration; frequent overseas travel; importation of vegetables and fruits; lack of a public health policy to screen food handlers for transmissible pathogens; outdoor and wilderness excursions; alternate life- styles; agricultural pollution; pets at home, etc.

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    Currently, World Health Organization studies indicate that about 1/2 billion individuals are infected annually by Amoeba histolytica and about the same number are infected by Giardia and cryptosporidium. Considering all parasites, more than 1/4 of the Earth's population is infected at any one time. More serious efforts must be made to prevent, identify, and treat these widespread and debilitating infections.

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    Mode of transmission & who is at risk
    The predominant method of transmission of parasites is the fecal- oral route through hand contact with infected individuals or via contaminated water and food. Many parasites are highly transmissible within a household environment. All family members should be tested if one member is positive for GI infection.

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    People with suppressed immunity, eg. T-cell (white cell) dysfunction and defects in intestinal antibody (IgA) secretion, are predisposed to protracted and heavy infections with GI pathogens. Individuals with cancer and those receiving chemotherapy for cancer are very susceptible to parasitic infection(s). Frequent and excessive overutilization of antibiotics renders the GI tract more susceptible to chronic overgrowth of harmful micro-organisms. These can produce a wide range of systemic toxins and/or cause severe irritation of large areas of fragile, nutrient absorbing intestinal tissue.

     

    Bodily functions affected by GI pathogens
    Intestinal pathogen infections cannot be clinically differentiated solely on the basis of medical history, physical exam and/or symptoms. Specifc diagnosis requires laboratory evaluation and confirmation. In most laboratories the general request for stool ova and parasite screening does not include the specialized testing and confirmation provided by the GI Health Panel.™ Asymptomatic, mild symptomatic and overt GI pathogen in-fections can affect and deter gastrointestinal function, and, if undetected, will lead to chronic illness.

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    Treatment & Prevention
    Detection and specific diagnosis of the pathogens, including a broad spectrum of micro?ora and common parasites is of paramount importance. This is because successful therapy is dependent on two primary issues. First, accurate and specific diagnosis of causative agent in a patient who presents with otherwise general and non-specific complaints and symptoms. Second, specific therapeutic agents can be targeted to eradicate offending micro-organisms with an extremely high success rate, with minimal side effects.

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