Anti bodies

[rrmac]

 How soon after being glutened will  antibodies show up in your bloodwork & for how long.

 I went to the dentist 5 times between 7/1 - 8/13 after each visit I was very sick. For about a week. My GI ran a Celiac panel on 8/21 which came back all negative. 

The dentist “thinks” all products were gluten-free if I was glutened would it have shown up on the blood tests?

Probably not related but the day after my last dentist visit I had a  campylobacter Infection that lasted 9 days I did not take antibiotics,

 

 

 

 

[kareng]

Small occasional glutenings won’t make enough antibodies to go from the the small intestine into the blood and show in a blood test.  Your doctor knows this but probably thinks you are consistently cheating or just wanted to placate you.  

I have never seen any products from the dentists office that contain gluten.  In fact, in the last year or two, they seem to most all say “gluten free” on them.  

[cyclinglady]

Get a new dentist!  My dentist insures that all his products are gluten free.  To ease my mind when I was initially diagnosed, I asked to read the ingredients myself.  My dentist complied with my request every single time.  He takes me seriously and cares!  He says now that almost all dental suppliers are aware about the need to be gluten free.  

My DPG IgA  antibodies were very elevated when I had my repeat endoscopy which revealed healthy villi.  I am not sure they are accurate at all for monitoring dietary compliance, but they are the only non-evasive “tool-in-the-toolbox”.  Supposedly, the DGP tests are better for dietary compliance as it takes longer for antibodies to build up to show an increase in the TTG test.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5295090/

How did know you had a campylobacter infraction?  Could that be the cause of your gluten-like symptoms?  

 

[rrmac]

 We did check the labels and Gluten was not listed he even gave me samples of everything he used on me and I tested it with my Nima and it came back negative for Gluten but yet every night after the dental appointment I was sick.

 We also got in touch with his supplier and they were of no help.

 Day after my last appointment I developed bodyaches fever and diarrhea headache which I thought was another reaction at first until the fever started.  That was on a Wednesday by Friday I knew I was in trouble and when the doctor was in on Monday he gave me a prescription to get a stool culture done which came back positive for Campylobacter.

 By then seven days had passed and I was on the mend it took another week for me to really start to feel normal .

 Mine were also in the normal range I thought they would be zero but they were not however they were below what they required for a positive DGP 6.1 <=19.9

 If I had Campylobacter for all those weeks I didn’t have any symptoms except upper G.I. bloating nausea and gas.

 

 

 

 

[rrmac]

 We did not do a scope I’m not due till May.

 I was already scheduled to get blood work done since it was a year since my last blood work it just happened to coincide with this dentist situation.