Hello all.
I recently had a GI effects stool test with doctor consultation. Pretty much I have an overgrowth of several species of commensal bacterias, and a deficiency of others, which is also possibly the cause of my very high secretory iga levels which is I'm sure partially caused by my low n butyrate production.
The doc told me that an overgrowth of even the commensal bacterias can cause all sorts of upsets and neurological issues.
I'll get right to the point. Only my stool results there are a few areas where the bacteria results show "<DL" and a grey bar before the point on the scale. I don't quite understand, it shows a level yet the <DL stands for something like results below detection level.
I am curious if this just means that the growth of these is just very very low, which would give me hope of raising these... I just don't know if it means they are extinct in me!!!
Below this panel there is an explanation that I don't quite understand: " the gray shaded portion of a quintile reporting bar represents the proportion of the reference population with results below detection limit". I don't follow, if it's below detection limit how are they presenting results?
Here is a small snippet of my results demonstrating this gray bar.
Can anyone tell me what this actually means in layman terms? Do I have at least some growth of these areas that I can work to regrow?