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    Welcome to the forum, @MG1031 What about oats? Dairy and oats are the two most common cross reactors in the celiac population. The oat protein "avenin" is similar in structure to the protein gluten. Chicken eggs is another common cross reactor. Is your daughter on any vitamin and mineral supplements? The damage to the villous lining of the small...
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    One small study I read recently found that half of the celiacs in the study experienced small bowel villous inflammation from CMP (Cow's Milk Protein).
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    What is BROW?
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    True, it is an autoimmune disorder. But it is also true that you can have an allergy to the protein gluten or to wheat apart from celiac disease.
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    Welcome to the forum, @SusanB123! Celiac disease has a genetic base but the genes need some stress trigger to be "turned on" to result in active celiac disease. Almost 40% of the population has one or more of the genes that are associated with celiac disease but only about 1% ever develop active celiac disease because the genes aren't turned on. The...
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    Welcome to the fourum, @Grace Good! I cannot find any claims in the Amazon advertising for this company's products to the effect of it being gluten free. Yet, you state in your post that "it says their gluten free". What is "it"? Is there such a statement on the packaging?
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    Okay, Scott and I were correct in our assumption then. It was a specific celiac blood antibody test and it was positive.
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    cristiana, what do you mean when you say "I recall my total IgA wasn't convincing"? Convincing of what? That one isn't even checking for celiac disease per se. It's only run in order to check for IGA deficiency since IGA deficiency can cause false negatives in the actual individual IGA celiac antibody tests. The total IGA test is not a direct test for celiac...
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    Welcome to the forum, @HannahF! The problem with oats can not only be "cross contamination" but also "cross reaction". Cross contamination refers to the inadvertent inclusion of wheat, barley or rye in the oatmeal. Cross reactivity refers to the fact that the main protein in oats (avenin) is similar enough in structure to gluten such that it causes gluten...
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    matts, can you please post the actual name of the test you allude to in your original post? We are uncertain which test you refer to as there are a number of blood antibody tests that can be run for celiac disease. Some of us assumed it was the tTG-IGA test since that is the first tool (and often the only one) that most physicians will grab out of the diagnostic...
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    Welcome to the forum, @Allias! May we assume you have been officially diagnosed with celiac disease? You do not address this at all but I assume you are a celiac since you are posting on a forum dedicated to that medical condition. Or, perhaps you are investigating the possibility of celiac disease as the reason for your poor calcium, folate, and iron...
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    For the doctor to say the results of the test were "satisfactory" is rather odd. By that did he mean he didn't think you have celiac disease.? I mean, the result of the test is positive for celiac disease. Or, did he mean that it was satisfactory in the sense of agreeing with your symptoms and family history as indicating celiac disease? It was a rather ambiguous...
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    Digestive enzymes won't help with gluten disorders per se but can often help with pancreatic enzyme deficiency related digestive problems. I'm not sure that having an IGA deficiency necessarily predisposes one to decreases in infection fighting ability but that's a good question to ask your physician.
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    Welcome to the forum, @cjjones5969! Just out of curiosity, if you had no symptoms, what led to your diagnosis? You may have developed some additional food intolerances which is very common in the celiac community, particularly with foods whose proteins are similar to gluten. Chief suspects are dairy and oats, even gluten free oats. The protein casein...
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    Just a heads up. Not every dermatologist is familiar with dermatitis herpetiformis nor knows how to correctly biopsy it. One common mistake made is to take the sample from the pimple instead of next to it. I agree with Scott. Your reaction to gluten is very strong and you putting your health at risk by trying to go forward with a proper gluten challenge...
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    So, you did have symptoms: vomiting and diarrhea. They are classic symptoms of celiac disease. That must be why they checked you for celiac disease. A colonoscopy cannot be used to diagnose celiac disease. The scope can't reach up into the small bowel from the lower end. The kind of scoping they do to check for celiac disease is called an endoscopy. The go...
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    Check with your doctor to find out if he/she wants to refer you to a GI specialist for an endoscopy/biopsy to confirm the results of the blood antibody testing or whether or not the tTG-IGA levels are high enough to grant a celiac disease diagnosis without further tests being done. If further testing is expected, you need to refrain from starting a gluten...
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    Welcome to the forum, @BadHobit! For the biopsy they only took one sample from the stomach and one from the small intestine? They should take several samples from the small bowel as the damage from celiac disease can be patchy. Sounds like you were the victim of poor timing with regard to each of your celiac testing experiences in the sense of...
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    @Vickey Matteson, cristiana expanded on the point I was trying to make. The term "symptom" has a broader meaning than just physical discomfort. You may feel fine but if a medical disorder is causing lab values to fall out of norm, such as iron or liver enzymes or vitamin D3 or B12 levels or bone/tooth demineralization or if you have developed a secondary...
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    Welcome to the forum, @Vickey Matteson! What you describe is actually very common in the celiac community. We call it "silent celiac disease". Silent in the sense of not causing significant discomfort or distress. After diagnosis, many silent celiacs look back and realize they did have some symptoms but they were so minor as to not grab their attention...
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    As far as your neck and shoulder pain goes, yes, this could be a symptom of celiac disease as one of the more than 200 symptoms associated with celiac disease is joint pain.
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    10g of gluten or the amount in about 4-6 slices of bread daily for several weeks should be a sufficient "gluten challenge". Your primary care provider should be able to order those tests.
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    Before you conclude you don't have celiac disease, you should request a more complete celiac blood antibody panel. You got the bare minimum blood test. You should ask for: Total IGA tTG-IGA DGP-IGA DGP-IGG TTG-IGG You need to have been eating generous amounts of gluten for weeks beforehand but sounds like you are aware of...
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    Welcome to the forum, @Neat1! Can you list the celiac blood antibody tests that were done? Another possibility is that you are IGA deficient which can create false negatives on IGA-based antibody tests. There is a blood test to check for that, commonly known as "total IGA" but many docs don't know to run it.
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    @N00dnutt, Greetings from the "left coast". That's how those of us of coming from a conservative perspective in the USA disparagingly refer to the states (California, Oregon and Washington) that border the Pacific ocean and are very politically and socially "progressive". Formerly known as the "west coast". Thanks for your entertaining explanation and...
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