I Dont Know If My Daughter Has Celiac?

[Maddie]

I have a 3 1/2 year old and 8 weeks ago she started with enormous gas, minor belly pain

and a little indigestion. We have now escalated into periodic vomiting and diarrhea and still enormous gas and 2-3 bouts of doubled over belly pain that last an hour or so every day. We have ruled out c diff, diabetes, ova and parasites. I took her off all gluten and put her on culturelle 5 days ago, which has stopped the diarrhea and now we only have 5 min. belly pain spells here and there but they are every day. We are waiting for the test for celiac to come back but I am going crazy. Does this sound like it. She tested negative for anemia. She has always been tall and healthy. She has had two rounds of antibiotics this year. I also had to take her off of straight milk to eliminate all the diarrhea. The other problem is I took her off of gluten monday and she was tested for celiac thurs. and doc said that shouldnt interfere with the test since it had only been three days. I dont want a false read. I even tried one diflucan prescribed by her doc thinking she had yeast issues. Trust me, any info would be greatly appreciated.

Maddie

[e&j0304]

It sounds like she could have it but you won't know until you get her tests back. That short amount of time off of gluten will not change her results. The test results can be unreliable in little kids however and I hope she at least got the complete panel run.

Good luck. She may be gluten intolerant without celiac so if the diet helps her, don't discount that. You also know that if her tests come back positive, or even it they're negative, they may want to do an endoscopy with biopsy to confirm the diagnosis. She needs to be eating gluten for that so you may want to keep her on a normal diet for now.

Shannon