Celiac Symptoms as a result of Coronavirus infection?

[BrooklynFamily]

Has anyone heard of or experienced glutening symptoms and been diagnosed with Covid? My son experienced extreme abdominal pain for nearly two weeks and we are trying to track down the cause. Through CT scans, ultrasounds, bloodwork, stool samples, and an MRI, we've ruled out appendicitis, problems with his gallbladder, intestinal twisting, colitis, parasites, etc. It occured to me that if a virus may be able to trigger a person to develop Celiac, that it could also trigger a person with an autoimmune disorder like Celiac to have Celiac symptoms. That is, it seems possible that the reaction that a person with Celiac has to the coronavirus could be slightly different. The virus could trigger an autoimmune response that mimics glutening. 

When my son's pain began, he was half-vaccinated (he is 13). At this point, he is fully-vaccinated, so I don't think there is a way to test if he ever had Covid during the time that he suffered the most intense pains. That said, the pain came and went and typically came back almost immediately after eating or drinking. We have been gluten-free since my son's diagnosis 11 years ago and maintain a gluten-free kitchen. Since the pain began, he has only been eating certified gluten-free foods or even just a banana... but when his symptoms were the worst, the reaction to eating was almost immediate. His pain has disappeared nearly 2 weeks after it began... which could be the amount of time for his body to recover from COVID.

Just wondering two things--

1) Has anyone experienced an autoimmune response to a covid-infection that mimics glutening?

2) Does anyone else experience 2-week long stomach reactions to accidental glutening? There is a small chance that my son was glutened at a restaurant and that that may have kicked this all off. That said, if he was glutened, this reaction is TOTALLY different from what he has experienced in the past from accidental glutening. In the past, his reaction is close to immediate (within an hour) and entails 8-10 hours of vomiting, but he is then seemingly better. This reaction is very different. I've heard that as kids with Celiac enter their teenage years, their symptoms/reactions to gluten may change. So, I'm also wondering if that is a possibility. 

Thank you! We are in touch with our pediatrician, gastroenterologist, and now an immunologist about all of this. I'm more just looking for ideas from others in the community that might support either of these theories-- either that this was his body's reaction to COVID or that his reaction to glutening has changed.

[Scott Adams]

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