When is it advised NOT to take the sample?

You or your patient should not conduct the ImuPro test if:

1. They have a temperature; please wait until it has gone down.
2. They are on cortisone therapy/steroids: If the therapy is short term, i.e., less than eight weeks, please wait until the patient has been off the therapy for four weeks and then conduct the test. If the patient is on long-term cortisone therapy, please do the test regardless (as the patient would never otherwise do the IgG food intolerance test), but be aware that the markers will be weaker than normal (as the therapy suppresses IgG reactions). You will need to see a strength 1 or 2 reaction as likely to represent a strength 4 reaction (i.e., the patient would have had a stronger reaction if not on cortisone therapy), and your advice (re. how long to stay off the food, etc.) should be based on that assumption.
3. They are on chemotherapy. If the chemotherapy is short term (up to eight weeks), please wait until the patient has been off the therapy for four weeks and then conduct the test. If the therapy is longer term, please conduct the test anyway (because the benefits outweigh the disadvantages), but the constraints are the same as mentioned above re. the strength of reaction.