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how long is the shortest amount of time that you can test positive on a blood test for celiac after the 'trigger' event

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cristiana Veteran
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Hi Mandy

Here in the UK it is recommended a person consumes about 2 pieces of gluten containing (wheat, barley, rye) toast a day for six weeks, or some others say two meals a day for six weeks should contain gluten as a key ingredient.

If you haven't been consuming gluten and then had a one off trigger event which may be what you are referring to I am not really sure how that would affect blood tests.  I hope someone else will be able to help.

Cristiana

 

 

trents Grand Master
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Welcome to the forum, Mandy42!

Your question is one I don't believe I have ever seen on this forum. Most people don't know what the "triggering event" was or when it happened. I assume by "triggering event" you refer to some health stressor that triggers the celiac genes to move from the latent condition to the active condition. It takes most people some time to realize that has happened as most aren't on the lookout for celiac disease and assume their symptoms are due to something else besides celiac disease. Can you confirm what you mean by "triggering event". Can you describe your symptoms?

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23 hours ago, trents said:

Welcome to the forum, Mandy42!

Your question is one I don't believe I have ever seen on this forum. Most people don't know what the "triggering event" was or when it happened. I assume by "triggering event" you refer to some health stressor that triggers the celiac genes to move from the latent condition to the active condition. It takes most people some time to realize that has happened as most aren't on the lookout for celiac disease and assume their symptoms are due to something else besides celiac disease. Can you confirm what you mean by "triggering event". Can you describe your symptoms?

hi I had a triggering 'stressful' event 5/6 weeks before my celiac blood test came back positive so I think I have worked out that that was the point that my celiac became active. I was eating gluten before my test.  

Just now, Mandy42 said:

hi I had a triggering 'stressful' event 5/6 weeks before my celiac blood test came back positive so I think I have worked out that that was the point that my celiac became active. I was eating gluten before my test.  

I had no symptoms - my celiac test was done due to what I later found out was another totally separate issue 

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This is the only paper I can find about your question. In this case there were stressful events within a year of celiac disease onset, mean 5.5 +/- 4.1 months.

Life Events and the Onset of Celiac Disease

Any such research would have to be purely observational, looking backwards from the time of diagnosis - it would obviously be unethical to try to trigger celiac disease in people!

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