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    Was the blood draw made while you were still consuming regular amounts of gluten and had been doing so for at least a period of months? Getting blood antibody tests after already having embarked on a gluten free diet or even limiting gluten consumption will invalidate testing.
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    Yeah, it's just a marketing ploy.
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    "Yet another watered down certification that is really no better than basic FDA gluten free labeling." My thoughts exactly. And the staff person responding to you needs to take a refresher course in English grammar: "products that has low risk" and "Also, they submit a gluten free test results for the possible gluten residue." I'm not impressed with...
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    @gfreenc, there is no gluten in milk, whether human or bovine. Gluten is a protein in certain grains but it is broken down into various amino acids during digestion before it gets into the bloodstream and thus it will not wind up in milk.
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    I would agree. The tests do not indicate you have celiac disease. So, if you are convinced that when you eliminate gluten from your diet your symptoms improve, I would conclude you have NCGS.
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    So it sounds like Global Foods has adopted the FDA standard for "gluten free" advertising.
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    Never heard of them. They give an email address so if I were you I would contact them and ask those questions. It would be wonderful if they had tighter requirements than GFCO in the sense of more frequent batch testing and even random testing. Recent news articles on this forum from back in this summer have revealed that GFCO is letting us down.
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    Yes, if you reduce gluten intake the inflammation of the small bowel lining begins to subside, the damage begins to heal, and the villous lining of the small bowel beings to rebuild itself. If there is no inflammation, there are no new antibodies being produced and the antibody level eventually begins to drop below detectable levels. And if you were to go...
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    Welcome to the forum @DonnaKEllis! Actually, a colonoscopy cannot be used to diagnose celiac disease. Celiac disease typically damages the lining of the small bowel, the portion of the intestines immediately below the stomach. A colonoscopy cannot reach up that far. They use an endoscopy to diagnose celiac disease. But that is usually the second stage...
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    "This gluten problem is, apparently, mostly a female issue, as well, 2 to 1 female. The medical establishment does not put an equal amount of resources into female medicine as it does to men's medicine, no matter how far we've come." PlanetJanet, while it is true that more women than men are diagnosed with celiac disease, it may not be true that it...
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    BadHobit, did you know that 40% of the general population has one or more of the genes that have been associated with the development of celiac disease? But only about 1% of the population actually develops celiac disease. So, the gene test can legitimately be used to rule out celiac disease but not to confirm it.
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    Not that long. More recent guidelines are saying at least 10g of gluten (equivalent of 4-6 slices of wheat bread) for at least two weeks before either the blood draw or the biopsy. However, just to be sure I would extend that to 4 weeks.
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    Were there any other tests besides the EMA run for celiac disease? If not, you should request them. At minimum, "total IGA" and "tTG-IGA" should be ordered. A more complete celiac panel would also include the DGP-IGA, DGP-IGG and TTG-IGG. And very importantly, you should not have been reducing gluten consumption in the weeks/months leading up to the testing...
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    Have you been diagnosed with celiac disease or are you looking into it?
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    Welcome to the forum, @Toaster! EMA is a celiac disease specific antibody test. It was one of the first antibody tests developed for celiac disease but it has fallen out of favor in recent years. It is an excellent test but expensive to administer as it requires the use of animal organ tissue (esophagus I think) in order to be run. Since then, a less...
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    I found a lot of stuff on Amazon when I searched for, "Gluten free Christmas cookies".
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    Welcome to the forum, @warren031945! Use the search tool in the upper right corner of this forum page to find articles addressing your needs. I know there have been articles done on celiac.com dealing with the question of gluten-free cheeses and candies. Whether or not you could find something already put together in one place that is gluten free is...
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    Welcome to the forum, @Rcnc63! Well, celiac and gluten go together. Celiac disease is an autoimmune reaction triggered by the ingestion of gluten that damages the lining of the small bowel. Gluten is a protein found in three grains: wheat, barley and rye. So, for starters, bread and pasta are out. Focus on fresh meat, vegetables and fruits and cooking...
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    Probably NCGS then and there is also the possibility of an H. Pylori infection.
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    Yes, but it does say it is wheat free. So, if it does contain gluten, it would must have come into contact with barley or rye somehow which isn't very likely. I think a lot of companies with products like this aren't willing to claim gluten free status because they don't want to got through the expense of testing and/or incur the liability risk if some customer...
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    I wonder that as well!
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    I would not think abstaining from commercially processed food would have any effect on dermatitis herpetiformis. What can help with dermatitis herpetiformis is reducing iodine in your diet and, of course, you must completely abstain from gluten. Many who suffer from dermatitis herpetiformis cannot find relief until they get on a med called Dapsone....
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    When you had the blood draw done for the antibody testing, had you already been practicing a gluten free diet? If so, that would also sabotage the results of the tTG-IGA.
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    Welcome to the forum, @Alibee! The Tissue Transglutaminase Ab IgA (aka, tTG-IGA) is a blood antibody test designed to detect the antibodies produced by celiac disease. It is the most popular single test ordered by physicians for this purpose but there are several others that could have been ordered. This test was negative in your case. The Immunoglobin...
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    Take a look at this: https://www.amazon.ca/Soy-Flour-32-oz-OliveNation/dp/B075SY4GZD/ The description says it is processed in a facility that also processes nuts and soy. But it does not mention processing wheat.
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