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Can Dermatitis Herpetiformis only appear once?

Randommuwa

By Randommuwa
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Randommuwa Apprentice
Randommuwa
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Since I've had blood work come back positive I've been looking into celiacs disease a bunch. When looking into Dermatitis Herpetiformis, it reminded me of a rash I had in 2019. Like it looks exactly the same, and they had an awfully hard time diagnosing the rash. I got like 3 different and wrong diagnoses and now I'm sat here wondering if that's what it was? Is it possible to only have one outbreak? The symptoms of it matched up too, it was unbelievably ichy, blistered and burned. I had a biopsy of it done so I don't know if the description would be of any indication if it could have been or not. Thanks! 

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Can I assume that you are now on a gluten-free diet, and went on it sometime after 2019?

If you were eating gluten daily back at the time you had this outbreak, it would be very unusual, but not impossible, for it to go away. Most people with DH get the outbreak chronically while they eat any gluten, and it usually will go away when you've been gluten-free for a long period of time.

I will assume that you're gluten-free now, and so even if it was DH back then, you should not need to worry about it now if you are good at following the diet.

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