Celiac.com 05/23/2019 - One of the most common questions we see about celiac disease diagnosis is: How long does it take, on average for a person to be diagnosed with celiac disease from the time they first notice symptoms? The answer can vary from person to person, and from doctor to doctor. It can depend on what resources your doctor has to test you for celiac antibodies. It can vary by location and country.
One doctors start looking for celiac disease, it doesn't usually take them very long. In theory, a diagnosis of celiac disease is fairly straightforward. The best case would be you notice symptoms, go see a doctor, receive a quick antibody screen, test positive for celiac antibodies, receive a biopsy and get a confirmation.
In reality, it almost never works like that....

Celiac.com 09/19/2025 – Celiac disease is a chronic autoimmune condition triggered by eating gluten. It can cause a wide range of symptoms, from digestive problems to skin, bone, and neurological issues. Some people experience many symptoms on a daily basis, while others may have only a few or none at all. Because symptoms vary so widely, celiac disease can be difficult to recognize and diagnose.
7 Major Categories of Celiac Symptoms
Digestive symptoms: abdominal pain, bloating, gas, diarrhea, constipation, nausea, vomiting, steatorrhea (fatty stools). Non-digestive symptoms: fatigue, weakness, anemia, weight loss, malnutrition, delayed growth, irritability, depression, anxiety, brain fog. Skin symptoms: itchy rash, blistering, dermatitis herpetiformis, e...

Celiac.com 01/16/2021 - Oh dear! This week I met three parents in my clinic who are quite annoyed.  Perhaps infuriated is more accurate.  All three families have a child who has been unwell for years.  All three children had blood tests done over the last two years by another pediatrician—these tests showed high levels of gluten antibodies (a high IgG-gliadin level) which was ignored.
Anna is nine years old.  She is now gluten-free and is better: she sleeps all night, has no tummy pains, has more energy and she is enjoying life again.  She is strictly gluten-free.  Even small amounts of gluten upset her tummy.  She says "I feel good!"
Previously, she had tummy pains since two years of age.  However, over the last few months everything got worse with very bad tummy pains and...

Celiac.com 10/08/2021 - I live near Montréal, in Québec country and I’m webmaster of a new French web site called SOSGLUTEN.CA devoted to gluten sensitivity.  The first time I saw the word “gluten” was in year 2000.  At that moment my wife, Danielle, was very sick and while she was waiting for a diagnosis from her doctor, I discovered an ailment called “celiac disease” on the Web.  That was my first meeting with the word “gluten”.  When she went to the doctor to finally receive what is, effectively, a diagnosis of celiac disease, she had already been on a gluten-free diet for three weeks, based on my own findings.  After that, I continued to read, read, and read again, anything on the web concerning celiac disease and gluten sensitivity.  
In 2002 when my youngest daughter, Manon, rece...