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HeatherMelissa Apprentice
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We are doing follow up blood work for my daughter who was DX in July of this year. We have a routine physical next week and I want to discuss what tests my DR is going to run on her.

I saw that someone mention 5 blood tests. Anyone know for sure? And what are their names?

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If your daughter had symptoms that are improving there's really no use in doing celiac blood tests again this early. The fact that she's imrpoving means she's doing well, but if her blood levels were up in July, thery're unlikely to all be normal yet. And then you'll worry unnecessarily because they aren't normal. Unless the patient is not improving, there's really no need for new tests for a year. If she had iron or mineral deficiencies, you might want to test that again now.

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yeah, if she's already DX'ed, I'd give it a while longer. I haven't had a follow up test myself, but my levels were inconclusive, so I go by symptoms.

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She's not improving. We are treating her anemia now with IV's if iron.

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One thing I'd ask the doctor about if you haven't already is bacterial overgrowth. This is very frequently the cause of lack of improvement in people with celiac. Probiotics or antibiotics can knock it out. Some celiac experts automatically put every new celiac patient on probiotics because a fair percentage also have overgrowth. Overgrowth can also block absorption and cause diarrhea.

The tests are Iga, total Iga, Igg, and ttg (the fifth test you're thinking of is one you can do instead of the ttg but I don't remember its name).

richard

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The tests are Iga, total Iga, Igg, and ttg (the fifth test you're thinking of is one you can do instead of the ttg but I don't remember its name).

richard

I believe the fifth test you're thinking of is EMA.

(most docs only do anti-gliandina IgA and IgG, but there are also anti-reticulin IgA and IgG that are sometimes included in the panel, though less often than they were in the past, with the advent of the tTg test)

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