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What Are The Different Kinds Of Stool Tests Available?

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Channel: CanXida · 2018 · Education

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Greetings, Eric Bakker, naturopath, thanks for coming back. We're still talking about stool testing. This time we're going to talk about the different types of stool tests that are available. I'm on the Doctor's Data website now, and I'll put the link in the description box under this.

I'm just reading here the different types of panels that they do, they do so many different types of stool tests. You can just do a bacteriology culture alone, so looking at the bacteria for example, at the good bugs, Lactobacillus or Bifidobacteria, versus the not-so-good bugs, like Citrobacter or Pseudomonas. We can do a calprotectin stool test, which is an inflammatory marker.

We can do a comprehensive parasitology test, which is just a pure parasite screening, and that can be a times one, two or three. So you can do a one sample, up to three samples on three separate days. You can do the comprehensive stool analysis without the parasitology, so that's basically the markers which I like to look at, like inflammation, immunology, intestinal health markers, short chain fatty acids, including the bacterial panel without the parasite panel.
You can do that as well to save yourself a hundred bucks if you don't want to do a parasite screen. You can do elastase, which is a pancreatic enzyme marker to see if the pancreas is functioning properly. You can do a Helicobacter pylori or an antigen test, which is bacteria that lives in the stomach. If you've got heartburn or reflex or GERD, you can just test for that particular bug, which is actually about one in four Americans have got that bug in their tummy.

You can do an intestinal permeability test. There's several ways you can test for leaky gut. There's different drinks you can drink, or breath test you can do to determine how leaky the small intestine is. There's a lactoferrin test and there's a lysozyme test. These are two separate inflammatory markers. So, for example, if you're anemic or you've got low red-blood, low hemoglobin, a bit of blood in the stool, you're worried about your gut. If there's any possible bad sort of disease, you can check for the inflammation. These tests are about 80 or a 100 bucks for inflammatory markers alone.

Yeah, it goes on and on and on, you can do secretory IgA test. So you can just do a test to determine what your immune involvement in the gut is; if there's antibodies very high or very low. That can give you an indication on if there's any potential inflammation there, or food reactions, or parasites inflammation, all sorts of information.

You can do a Clostridium difficile culture test. Clostridium is a bug, again, that lives in our gut, but it can be really bad as well for some people. You could have an overgrowth of Clostridium creating a serious disease. You can do just a yeast panel on its own, which some people might like to do. I don't think it's a great idea just doing a yeast panel, I think you're better off doing a comprehensive stool test, which gives you all the analytes you're looking for. Yeah, it's just much, much better bang for your buck, just do the comprehensive test.

But just to show you, there's at least 25 or 30 stool tests you can do, but the best one, in my opinion, is the comprehensive stool analysis times three, including parasitology. That's the best opening test to do.

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