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Celiac Disease After Trip To Nepal?!

MBOLARSEN

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MBOLARSEN Newbie
MBOLARSEN
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Hi

Five months ago i finished a 3 months trip to Nepal.. One week before returning to my home country of Denmark I got really sick after eating an ice-cream. And for the fourth time in my 3-month-trip I had to take antibiotics. They helped with the diarea but since taking the first pill of the antibiotics everything changed completely!!!!

Since I took that medicine I haven't been able to sleep well, I cant gain weight (and my weight is NOT normal(way too low)), I've been suffering from constipation and pain in my back and stomach, having a burning pain around my chest, I feel depressed and I don

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The first time I really got nailed by food intolerance was after a semester in Mali... I was eating SO healthy there! Lots of rice, fruit, and vegetables with a little meat and a tiny amount of dairy. Very little processed food. I felt GREAT. Then I got back to the United States and I spent a week with my parents... eating sandwiches, bowls of cereal. Ugh!! Every time I went to the bathroom I felt like I was going to die. My intestines hurt SO bad. I assumed it was the lactose. Silly me. I had never heard of celiac disease and didn't have health insurance... so I never went to see a doctor about it.

If you're going to have the biopsy you need to keep eating gluten every day... toast, sandwiches, bowls of cereal... 2-3 times a day would be best. Even then, you still might get a negative result. Some doctors don't want to diagnose celiac disease until your intestines are really destroyed. Or... you could just stop eating gluten and do a genetic test to determine your risk for gluten intolerance (and related disorders). I had a great response to the gluten-free diet... then I found out I have one of the genes for celiac. That's all the incentive I need to stay off gluten :lol:

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Mtndog
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I wonder if you caught tropical sprue which is an infection, where as celiac sprue is an autoimmune disorder. Here's an article on Open Original Shared Link

I hope it helps and I hope you figure out what it is. Nepal is my dream trip!

mftnchn Explorer
mftnchn
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I was also going to say be sure they have checked you for tropical sprue. And yes, gluten eating is necessary in good amounts until after the biopsy, be sure you stay on it that long.

Parasites are very very hard to test for accurately. And they can really mess up the intestine, and could trigger celiac disease in the susceptible I imagine. But also if the intestine is messed up and you end up with leaky gut due to some infection, you could become gluten sensitive because of that.

Keep us posted, please.

MBOLARSEN Newbie
MBOLARSEN
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Thank you for the answer!!

I find it very strange that any of the tropical-disease-specialist that I have been to haven't checked me for this Tropical Sprue which I have never heard about before now....

I have already been through a telescopic examination of the large intestine where the doctor took a biopsy... The only thing he found there was some kind of inflammation but it was not posible for him to specify the cause. He connected me to a new tropical scientist who took new stool and blood examples which came back without any useable result...

Don't you think they would have found this tropical sprue in the biopsy from the large intestine??

MBOLARSEN Newbie
MBOLARSEN
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Thank you for the answer!!

I find it very strange that any of the tropical-disease-specialist that I have been to haven't checked me for this Tropical Sprue which I have never heard about before now....

I have already been through a telescopic examination of the large intestine where the doctor took a biopsy... The only thing he found there was some kind of inflammation but it was not posible for him to specify the cause. He connected me to a new tropical scientist who took new stool and blood examples which came back without any useable result...

Don't you think they would have found this tropical sprue in the biopsy from the large intestine??

I was also going to say be sure they have checked you for tropical sprue. And yes, gluten eating is necessary in good amounts until after the biopsy, be sure you stay on it that long.

Parasites are very very hard to test for accurately. And they can really mess up the intestine, and could trigger celiac disease in the susceptible I imagine. But also if the intestine is messed up and you end up with leaky gut due to some infection, you could become gluten sensitive because of that.

Keep us posted, please.

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