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- Kathleen JJ replied to Kathleen JJ's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms3
Options - 7 year old boy - Helicobacter pylori and serology
And yes, of course it's better to know and we will adjust. It's just, he's 7 and in our house we can control what he gets. But he plays soccer 3 times a week and in the changing room the boys share candies. I can and will tell him not to accept them any more, but "mistakes" will be made. I'm really burdened by the potential social impact... -
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My bone structure is disintegrating and I’m having to have my teeth removed
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- Kathleen JJ replied to Kathleen JJ's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms3
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Thank you for your reaction. The reference values are both "<10", although I found a medical paper from Netherlands (I'm Belgian) who use the same values and there the see a positive daignosis as twice more then 200 and a positive biopsie. I didn't see how to change this in my original message, sorry... -
- cristiana replied to Kathleen JJ's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms3
Options - 7 year old boy - Helicobacter pylori and serology
Hi Kathleen Welcome to the forum. I am based in the UK so I am just picking this post up before our US based moderators appear. I think they will want to know the lab values of both of the figures you have provided us with (min/max reading) as they tend to vary - could you post those for us, please? We see a lot of coeliacs who also have helicobacter... -
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Hi all, I'm very new at this and 'this' has been quite a rollercoaster ride. Last august my 7 year old son suddenly had these colic like pain attacks that would come a few times per day/night during 10 days. Because they were that bad and because our older daughter had her appendix taken out at 7, we ended up at ER twice to have him checked...
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