Testing My Children....

[Guest ~jules~]

Now that I have been diagnosed I am concerned about my children having this. My oldest complains of a crampy tummy from time to time, and has bouts of diareah evey now and then. Has anyone else found there children have this too? Jeez, I really hope they don't.

[AndreaB]

It is highly possible that they do or will develop a gluten sensitivity or celiac. I had my family tested by enterolab and found that myself, daughter and oldest son have active gluten sensitivity (or intolerance). My infant son wasn't tested. My husband is the only one not active and he has 2 celiac genes.

Definately something to look into. Whether by the regular route, enterolab or just the diet change.

[jayhawkmom]

Yes. I'm being tested because my 5 year old daughter has celiac disease.

So, myself, daughter, and youngest son are gluten-free.

[Guest ~jules~]

So, should I just have there blood tested? To me if their antibodies were strange would be enough I wouldn't want to put them through a scary procedure.

[Chrisser]

So, should I just have there blood tested? To me if their antibodies were strange would be enough I wouldn't want to put them through a scary procedure.

I would start out with the blood test. From what I've read here on the boards, though, you can sometimes get a false negative and then have the endoscopy come out positive. I think it depends on how much gluten you're eating at the time and the level of antibodies...I'm not entirely sure though. My brother just got the blood test, and that came out negative, but good Lord if anyone else in my family would have Celiac it would be him! But I know that trying to convince him otherwise or try to convince him to have the procedure done would be like talking to a brick wall.

[celiacgirls]

I discovered I was gluten intolerant because of my younger daughter. She was always complaining about her tummy hurting. The doctors could never find anything wrong with her and dismissed it as anxiety. She was tested for celiac disease with the blood tests and it was negative. We tested her with Enterolab and it was positive. Then I tested myself and my other daughter and we were positive. So all of us are gluten free. My other daughter and I didn't have any of the gastro symptoms.