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Hi everyone. I have been reading posts for a while now, but this is my first post. I was diagnosed with Celiac about 2 years ago. My baby is 12 months now and was just diagnosed with three positive blood tests and we had the biopsies done on Tuesday. He has been so sick and I am so relieved to finally have a diagnosis. (the stupid doctors kept telling me he was too young to be tested and his horrible diarrhea was just from the antibiotics form his millions of ear infections) Anyway, my question is, after his endoscopy, he was diagnosed with a hiatal hernia and then the doctor said he also noticed that the mucosa of the duodenum was nodular. What does that mean?? All the doctor would say was that he wouldn't know anything until the biopsy results came back. Can this be from celiac damage or cancer or what? I am going crazy with worry and the results won't be back until mon. Please, if any of you have any answers, I would appreciate it. Thanks!!

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I read an article recently about endoscopies and biopsies in celiac disease patients. It said that occasionally there are "suggestive" changes in the duodenal mucosa that can be seen during the endoscopy with the naked eye. I can't remember if these were described as nodular. I have the article at work and I'm at home now. Anyway, I think your doctor was may have been saying that he was suspicious of celiac just because of the way the mucosa looked, but of course he doesn't want to say your son has celiac until the biopsies are examined microscopically.

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