Confused By Test Results

[pepperzoe]

Hello everyone. My dad was diagnosed celiac a couple of months ago. His doctor recommended that his children get tested. My doctor who was big on tests retired. The physician

[Emily Elizabeth]

Welcome to the board! I don't have experience with reading your results, but there are some very knowledgable people on this board. Hopefully one of them will be able to shed some light on this for you.

Emily

[nora-n]

I think it means that you have Ttg antibodies that come from eating gluten (this is what secondary to dietary somethingoreanother means)

Can you still get the blood tests done somehow?

Did you do the gene test? If DQ2 or 8, your ordinary blood tests might show positive for celiac. enterolab is way more sensitive and can only say you are gluten sensitive. The researchers do not want too many positive results for celiac so Enteroloab cannot say they diagnose celiac, only gluten sensitivity, officially.

nora

[pepperzoe]

Here's the response I received from Entrolab.

"Every body produces an enzyme called tissue transglutaminase. The main purpose of this enzyme is to help your body digest and process the gluten protein. However, if you cannot digest the gluten protein in the first place, this enzyme cannot properly function, therefore your body begins producing the antitissue tranglutaminase. In other words, it attacking and trying to destroy the healthy enzyme so your body is essentially attacking itself. This is an autoimmune reaction confirming that you are susceptible to developing other autoimmune disorders, arthritis and diabetes being the most common, however this can cover the entire scope of autoimmune disorders. With many people the autoimmune reaction is secondary to the gluten sensitivity."

I wish my doctor would just test me so we could go over the results. So happy this board exists because this is confusing.