A question about Cyrex food intolerance arrays. When do you consider reintroducing foods, and do you often retest Array 3 and Array 4? If and when do you retest?

Dr. Amy Nett: Sometimes we will reintroduce without testing. If a patient gets to a point where he has what I would call a good enough or a stable baseline, and he is able to notice differences in symptoms, I think it’s okay to just reintroduce foods at that point and see how he does. If someone is not feeling great, let’s say we’re still working on other things or still having a variety of symptoms, we have to do other testing and that sort of thing, but he wants to add other foods in, then I’ll consider repeat testing. If somebody is feeling great, and he is ready to start reintroducing new foods and doesn’t really have a lot of complaints, he is kind of stable day to day, then I think you can do a careful reintroduction of foods and look for any changes from baseline. That really is the gold standard in a careful reintroduction diet, so I think it’s all about what baseline you have in order to look for changes and response to adding other foods in.