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- knitty kitty commented on knitty kitty's blog entry in Thiamine Thiamine Thiamine1
Gastrointestinal Beriberi
Impairment of Thiamine Transport at the GUT-BBB-AXIS Contributes to Wernicke's Encephalopathy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29128903/ -
- drjay replied to drjay's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms3
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- Aretaeus Cappadocia replied to drjay's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms3
Unsteady in my new diagnosis
@drjay in addition to what @trents wrote, I wanted to comment on your statement, "Positive for DQ2 and homozygous for DQB1*02 but negative for DQ8" You don't need DQ2 >and< DQ8 in order to be susceptible to getting celiac. Either one is good enough. DQB1*02 is a specific genetic allele that encodes part of the DQ2 protein. "Homozygous" means... -
- trents replied to drjay's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms3
Unsteady in my new diagnosis
@drjay, your mixed test results experience is exceedingly common for someone having been consuming reduced amounts of gluten. A Marsh scale score of 3 indicates "significant villous atrophy" according to a quick google search I did and the biopsy is the gold standard diagnostic test anyway, not the blood antibody testing. It doesn't look like a "total IGA...
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