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    • Wheatwacked
      Growing up I wondered why restaurants always put parsley on the plates when no one ate it.  ten grams of parsley sprigs have Vitamin K (phylloquinone)164µg. The RDA of vitamin K is 19+ years male: 120 mcg  female: 90 mcg. Maybe your doctor would agree instead of the pills? The USDA Food Data Centra is a good source of nutrition. USDA Food Data Parsley, fresh I'd be interested in your test results vis a vis the Celiac vitamins.
    • Scott Adams
      If you are doing great on a gluten-free diet and see no reason to get a formal diagnosis of celiac disease, then it's perfectly fine for you to just stay gluten-free.  In the Europe the current protocol for making a celiac disease diagnosis in children is if their tTg-IgA (tissue transglutaminase IgA) levels are 10 times or above the positive level for celiac disease. According to the latest research, if the blood test results are at certain high levels that range between 5-10 times the reference range for a positive celiac disease diagnosis, it may not be necessary to confirm the results using an endoscopy/biopsy: Blood Test Alone Can Diagnose Celiac Disease in Most Children and Adults TGA-IgA at or Above Five Times Normal Limit in Kids Indicates Celiac Disease in Nearly All Cases No More Biopsies to Diagnose Celiac Disease in Children!    
    • trents
      Well, you have some decisions to make. If you want an endoscopy, you must start the "gluten challenge" and daily eat the gluten equivalent of 4-6 slices of bread for several weeks.
    • Debstaats
      Thank you. I just get tired of my PCP acting like I’m an idiot. My GI feels I have it, but cannot officially give me the diagnosis without an endoscopy. So, I’m officially gluten sensitive, without the endoscopy.
    • trents
      Your PCP is not well informed. The tTG-IGA is a very reliable celiac blood antibody test. There are some other foods, medications and diseases that can cause elevated tTG-IGA but the chances of the elevated tTG-IGA count being due to some other cause than celiac disease is not very great. This is especially true given your symptoms, your genetic profile and the fact that you have improved on a gluten free diet. Is there any particular reason you need an official diagnosis? I am attaching an article which outlines the various antibody tests for celiac disease and their reliability:       
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