Ask someone to drive you to urgent care or an emergency room if: 1  Nausea and vomiting are accompanied by pain or a severe headache, especially if you haven't had this type of headache before.  You're unable to eat or drink for 12 hours or your child hasn't been able to keep liquids down for eight hours.
Essentially, leaky gut syndrome (âintestinal hyperpermeabilityâ) is condition that happens as a consequence of intestinal tight junction malfunction. These âtight junctionsâ are the gateway between your intestines and what is allowed to pass into the blood stream.
The test I run most often on patients suspected of leaky gut is a simple blood test to look for an elevation of two things: Zonulin: Zonulin is a protein the body makes. Its job it is to open the tight junctions, your gut's gatekeepers to the blood stream.