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    What about repeat biopsies vs. serology and gluten challenges?

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    There are different practices amongst GIs on repeat biopsies vs. serology, and on gluten challenges. My sons g/i, for example, took the position that since my sons symptoms stopped on a gluten-free diet, and his previously sky-high EMA and ARA went back to normal, that it was unnecessary to do either a repeat biopsy or a gluten challenge. From the celiac list correspondence, I now see that my GI is rather liberal.**

    Vijay Kumar, M.D., Research Associate Professor at the University of Buffalo and President and Director of IMMCO Diagnostics: I think your sons GI is doing the right thing. That is, if the EMA, ARA are normal (


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    Scott Adams was diagnosed with celiac disease in 1994, and, due to the nearly total lack of information available at that time, was forced to become an expert on the disease in order to recover. In 1995 he launched the site that later became Celiac.com to help as many people as possible with celiac disease get diagnosed so they can begin to live happy, healthy gluten-free lives.  He is co-author of the book Cereal Killers, and founder and publisher of the (formerly paper) newsletter Journal of Gluten Sensitivity. In 1998 he founded The Gluten-Free Mall which he sold in 2014. Celiac.com does not sell any products, and is 100% advertiser supported.

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