antibodies Does getting glutened make your antibody levels higher?

[Yan05]

Hi everyone. I was wondering if an accidental glutening made one's antibody levels higher? And by this I mean high enough to show up on a blood test. I am fairly certain that I was glutened about 4-5 weeks ago, judging by the symptoms (I have no idea by what though). Being relatively new to this whole glutening thing, I thought I'd go and get my antibodies checked to see if it was indeed a glutening. However, my antibody levels haven't gotten any higher (Transglutaminase IgA at 11.6 whereas it was at 18.6 in June and higher before that - have had slowly decreasing levels ever since diagnosis 20 months ago). Since I have read that one must be on a gluten diet containing a fairly high level of gluten for the diagnosis-purpose blood tests to actually work, I was just wondering if it was possible that I had been glutened, but that it didn't show up in my blood work. Does anybody have any experience with this? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[kareng]

1 small amount of gluten shouldn't raise the antibodies enough to show in a test. 

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Do I need to have a follow-up test each time I get glutened?

Follow-up tests are intended to test whether there’s significant (and repeated) exposure to gluten. A mistake (or two) may cause symptoms, but they will only activate the disease for a short time, though it must be noted that each celiac responds differently. It’s the repeated exposure for the long-term that keeps the disease active enough to cause damage.

[Yan05]

Thank you very much for your help kareng. This information is very useful.

[nvsmom]

The tTG testsaren't very fast to change and aren't good tests for checking dietary compliance.  The deaminated gliadin tests (DGP) would be the most likely blood test to show a single glutening, but that is a pretty slim chance too.

Congrats on the ttG coming down!    You're moving in the right direction fairly quickly.