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<channel><title><![CDATA[Celiac Disease & Gluten-free Diet Information at Celiac.com - Comments for article: Intestinal Biopsy is Not Necessarily Required to Diagnose Celiac Disease]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com</link><description /><language>en-us</language><copyright><![CDATA[http://www.celiac.com]]></copyright><generator>N/A</generator><webMaster>scott@celiac.com</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:00:24 PDT</lastBuildDate><ttl>20</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #1]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment14977</link><description><![CDATA[I wonder if these trio of tests would also be best for followup testing.  After 5 years of being on the diet, with no "cheating" I still have a positive tTg IgA, and it may vary between labs.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by John S at 9:35 am, Mon 18th Feb 2013)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (John S)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:35:08 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment14977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #2 (Reply to Comment #1)]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment15191</link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to respond to your post. This may help others out. The problem I'm encountering is my body is responding to airborne gluten protein being emitted in the form of steam. I'm inhaling it when I breath. even though I'm not eating it. Just breathing it, I have the bloating and all the other symptoms going on. I can feel it as soon as it hits me. I am so allergic to it that my allergist has armed me with 4 epinephrine shots. He probably would think I was crazy except he's known me for 25 years and I've landed in the hospital at least 5 times. This is totally uncharted territory. There are no scientific studies to this date being done to address this problem. Maybe this is something you may want to consider.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Erin Coleman at 8:39 am, Tue 26th Feb 2013)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Erin Coleman)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:39:20 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment15191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #2 (Reply to Comment #1)]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment16208</link><description><![CDATA[Erin, have you looked into the Specific Carbohydrate Diet? A small percentage of celiac patients do not feel better after going only gluten-free. Many think they're suffering from gluten that they eat through cross-contamination and/or that they breathe or touch. After going on the SCD, they don't suffer celiac symptoms anymore and finally begin to heal. I recommend you look into it.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Brie at 9:59 am, Thu 13th Jun 2013)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Brie)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:59:40 PDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment16208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #4 (Reply to Comment #1)]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment15877</link><description><![CDATA[Yes, blood tests for CD, gluten/gliadin intolerance, and food intolerance are good ways to monitor patient compliance when being on an allergen-free protocol.  Even more, the at-home kits for CD and food intolerance are an easy and cost-effective way for both physicians and individuals to verify if known allergens are not getting into one's diet.*

*Note: You can find these at-home kits on-line by doing a search in Google for "At-Home 96-Food IgG ELISA Food Intolerance Screening Kit".  Good luck!<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by John at 9:10 am, Sun 21st Apr 2013)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (John)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:10:23 PDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment15877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #5]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment15173</link><description><![CDATA[I feel the tests were done by qualified people who understand celiac disease.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Beverly at 4:55 pm, Mon 25th Feb 2013)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Beverly)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:55:54 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment15173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #6]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment15174</link><description><![CDATA[Ratings, I believe can vary depending on the toxins we have in our body at the time. I take my nutritional stem cell products and leave the results up to God. I'm aware of some of the toxins in body. I can't avoid all of them.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Beverly at 5:00 pm, Mon 25th Feb 2013)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Beverly)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:00:43 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment15174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #7]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment15179</link><description><![CDATA[About 20 years ago, after trying all kinds of things to account for my lack of iron, my GP sent me to a specialist. During my visit, the specialist spent most of his time studying my fingernails. He then made an appointment for me at his hospital office. He used a scope down my throat. It only took a few minutes and he was able to tell me about the sad condition of, or rather a lack thereof, my villi. Luckily for me, after weaning off of the iron and folic acid, the nubs still worked.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Kevin Stewart at 7:29 pm, Mon 25th Feb 2013)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Kevin Stewart)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:29:43 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment15179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #8]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment15182</link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, both positive biopsies and the three positive blood test results really mean that the celiac disease has been allowed to progress sufficiently that there is agreement that there is pretty widespread damage.  Couldn't we act before there's such severe confirmation of disease?  If one of the blood tests is positive, wouldn't that be a hint that something might need to be changed?  It took 10 years, but my son's positive antibody test finally turned into the three positive markers for celiac disease. Our pediatrician was worried that we would take gluten out of his diet before he had the disease.  I wonder if we could have prevented that by going gluten-free earlier.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Suzanne at 1:20 am, Tue 26th Feb 2013)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Suzanne)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:20:22 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/23204/1/Intestinal-Biopsy-is-Not-Necessarily-Required-to-Diagnose-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment15182</guid></item></channel></rss>