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- KRipple replied to KRipple's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms4
Celiac or Addison's complications? Can someone share their experience?
Thank you so much! And sorry for not responding sooner. I've been scouring the hospital records and can find nothing other than the following results (no lab info provided): Component Transglutaminase IgA Normal Range: 0 - 15.0 U/mL >250.0 U/mL High We live in Olympia, WA and I will be calling University of Washington Hospital... -
- trents replied to KRipple's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms4
Celiac or Addison's complications? Can someone share their experience?
Scott makes a good point about the prednisone. It has a general suppressing effect on the immune system. Don't misunderstand me. In view of your husband's several autoimmune afflictions, it would seem to be an appropriate medication therapy but it will likely invalidate endoscopy/biopsy test results for celiac disease. -
- Scott Adams replied to KRipple's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms4
Celiac or Addison's complications? Can someone share their experience?
I also want to mention that using prednisone would likely also make the endoscopy results invalid. This steroid will cause gut healing and could mask the damage caused by celiac disease. -
- Jess270 replied to AnnaNZ's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms29
Bitters for digestion?
This sounds to me like histamine intolerance. Some foods have more or less histamine. processed or aged meats, fermented food like yoghurt or kimchi and bread (yeast), spinach, eggplant and mushroom are high in histamine. Other foods like tomatoes are histamine liberators, they encourage your mast cells to release histamine, which can also trigger the reactions... -
- trents replied to Dawn Meyers's topic in Related Issues & Disorders23
Vaccines
@GeoPeanut, milk is one of the better sources of iodine. Iodine is known to exacerbate dermatitis herpetiformis. Many people find that a low iodine diet helps them avoid dermatitis herpetiformis outbreaks. So, maybe the fact that you have limited your dairy intake of late is helping with that.
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