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  1. plumbago
    The breath test, from what I've heard, is common. I had some abdominal issues 2 years ago and was due for my EGD (and colo :() anyway, and the doc checked my gut out at that time for H Pylori and didn't find it.
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    Good for you! There are a couple of ways to test for H. Pylori, including a breath test, via urine, serum, and stool; and gastric tissue biopsy.
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    You didn't post the actual results or the tests, so it's hard to speak more definitively, but any positive test on a Celiac panel is generally indicative of celiac disease. I would go online and print out something from one of the Celiac disease societies stating that and send her a fax asking for an endoscopy, if that's what you want.
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    The general advice is to continue eating gluten until you talk to your doctor. People do different things, sometimes, however. But yes, if you and your doctor and son opt for the biopsy via EGD, then he should continue eating gluten. There's a minimum amount, which I believe is something like one or two pieces of toast every day.
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    Is it possible that it would mean that your child has celiac disease but no damage has been demonstrated based on the biopsies so far?
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    @trents There are a lot of others with anemia from chronic disease. I work with a population that can be very sick. It definitely exists outside of an elderly population. (I am not saying this is what is happening with OP at all, and I don't mean to alarm her.)
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    It's probably too complicated for any of us to attempt to break this down for you. My first message is to talk this over with your doctor. It will also be my last message. In between, I'll say I'm glad you are getting re-tested while on gluten; that is entirely appropriate. Ferritin is the protein where iron is stored. (But the major storage site...
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    @deanna1ynne My response is in relation to the screenshot you posted, not the part you typed in. My notes say that if both deamidated gliadin tests (IgA and IgG) are high, almost certain to be celiac disease. Not sure I'm reading your screenshot correctly, but it appears that the deamidated gliadin IgG is very high and the deamidated gliadin IgA...
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    For now, at least until the appt, your child probably should continue eating gluten containing products such as one or two pieces of toast per day, and that's it. If you are going to a gastroenterologist, he or she may well recommend an endoscopy to diagnose, I can't say for sure. For adults, it sure is difficult to walk in to a GI office with GI complaints...
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    Ask to have the paper copy of the results sent to you (mail, portal, fax). It's the only way. Or go in and pick them up.
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    Can you post the reference ranges?
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    Replying to this topic nearly a year later....wow! Has anyone checked the prices of gluten-free hoisin sauce? I went to my local healthfood store and didn't find it, so I just looked on Amazon. Seems $12 is a bargain! OMG.
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    Yeah, something I was exposed to, but also probably I was under more stressed than I appreciated at the time. Ok, so Allegra is not the cure-all I was sure it was! Glad it's not getting worse, and good luck at the derm. I really have no direct experience with DH, except that I had hand eczema (which still flares but rarely) and my derm at my request did a...
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    I don't know if it's scabies, DH or something else, I'm sorry. It looks like it's awful though. Once I was traveling in Mexico and got body-all-over hives and urticaria. I went to three different doctors there, used bottles of calamine lotion. It didn't get better. Then somehow, someone recommended Allegra which was sold freely at the open-air, roadside pharmacies...
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    Hi, I can't really answer your question about how rare it is to experience vomiting after eating gluten, but I know in celiac disease generally, vomiting can be and is a symptom, with different reasons - ie, delayed gastric emptying; vitamin deficiency; among others. My understanding is not broad or deep enough to write very much more on this, but I...
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    Soluble fiber (pectins (eg, the inside of an apple), gums, muscilages (certain fruit seeds like pomegranate; oatmeal) does lower cholesterol by binding with bile and does slow digestion, true. However, insoluble fiber (cellulose, hemicellulose, lignans) like stalks, outer covering of nuts, skin of apple accelerates fecal transit time through the GI tract...
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    Good for you to look for people with similar experiences - give it some time. People may chime in here.
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    Hi, This sounds awful and I'm so sorry you are going through this! What I can say just reading through your comment is: I'm surprised they didn't tell you ahead of your endoscopy to keep eating gluten, that they could not do the test unless they were. (Well, that's what they should have said!). A positive FIT test means there is blood in your stool - commonly...
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    It’s important to keep eating gluten before the endoscopy in order to get an accurate reading. At least this is the understanding currently. The endoscopy will give you a good baseline reading, against which to judge healing later on. Others may know more, but from what I've heard, one piece of gluten-containing bread or toast a day should be enough. There m...
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    Contrast agent, medication, or bile?
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    Welcome Liz. To me, it sounds a bit of a stretch to link hypertension with gluten, but use any advice you receive here just as food for thought. Looking in my book, Recognizing Celiac Disease, there is some mention of mineral deficiencies like magnesium and potassium, associated with elevated blood pressure, but again to me that seems unlikely - there is...
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    Yes, as mentioned, the test looked for antibodies to spike (ie, what the vaccination produces antibodies for), so it was just looking at that, and none of the other proteins. Thanks!
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    I have to wear a mask at work, but I do it other places as well (it's required indoors where I live, which is smart). As for getting infected (you said "re"infected), I tend not to think so because I am tested frequently. I will likely test the antibodies again, and if they're still high, I will think with greater certainty that it's the vaccine. But it just...
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    Thanks, RMJ, yes, you'd think so! But it's so many months afterwards, and if, as is commonly being said these days, antibodies wane, I have to ask myself almost in disbelief what my antibodies were 3,4,5 months ago, if, nearly 8 months later, they are on the super high end?! It's a bit concerning to me. Again, it could have been an exposure, though I am very...
  25. plumbago
    Sorry. When I said "spike" I meant antibodies to the spike protein.
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