Enterolab

[Nic]

I recently had my son tested by our pediatrician for Celiac. He is 4 years old, his brother has Celiac, and like his brother I have been noticing a lot of constipation. I had him tested for antibodies but not the genetic test. He tested negative which I know can be inaccurate in young kids. Since then, I have read about a connectiion between Celiacs (or just gluten sensitivity) and hypotonia and developmental delays. He was diagnosed with this as an infant and we never found the cause. I Enterolad extremely accurate and would you suggest going that route?

Nicole

[CarlaB]

I was very pleased with them for both my daughters and myself. One daugther tested negative, the other daughter and I tested positive.

[celiacgirls]

I was also very pleased with them. I tested myself and 2 daughters and I believe the results were accurate for us. Only one daughter had symptoms of celiac before, but it never showed up on the blood tests. All of us feel much better on the gluten-free diet.

Counting my brother and sisters and their kids, 9 of us have tested and 9 of us have been positive. I do have a grandmother who had celiac disease so it is not that surprising. None of the in-laws have tested. Of the others, all except one have some symptom of celiac. They have not yet started the diet so its unclear what benefit they will have.

[AndreaB]

Nicole,

I had 4 people tested in my family with no symptoms except my allergy test results. 3 of us came back positive for gluten intolerance. I feel it was a good decision for our family especially since we didn't have any obvious symptoms and would have eventually progressed to being very sick. I like enterolab for the very reason that you can catch an intolerance before there is a lot of damage from gluten.

[inquirer]

Enterolab is the way to go. Not everyone has the intestinal issues and the bloodwork doesn't always show there's a problem. Enterolab testing will tell you whether you are reacting to gluten and if you are you can stop before there are major health problems or perhaps to reverse a health problem. My husband has been seriously ill with an autoimmune disease and going gluten free (after Enterolab testing) has been a part of his recovery. We did try to do the blood work through our primary but they screwed it up. The first part of the panel came back negative and they cancelled the rest of the test. If I hadn't looked up what TNP means, I never would have known that means Test Not Performed and assumed that the test was negative. If you are facing serious medical problems, you have to learn to read and research all labs done because mistakes are made all of the time.