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Thank God For Wonderful Doctors!

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Can it be true? A doctor listens to the parents and looks at the child in question. How is the child reacting to gluten? What are the symptoms? When you take the child off of gluten what happens? What happens when you challange the child with gluten? Let's do the blood test--negative. Let's go ahead and do the biopsy--negative. Let's re-examine the child's symptoms--

Diagnosis: We will treat Max as though he has Celiac disease. The biopsy is negative but all this means is that he's 2 and probably doesn't have enough damage to measure and maybe the samples weren't taken in JUST the right place. We won't have an official diagnosis, but as far as I'm (dr) concerned, Max has Celiac disease.

To Dr. William Marshall-

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for listening to us!!!!!

For all the parents out there--you know your child better than any doctor could possbily know them. Don't take "no" for an answer if you know in your heart of hearts that there's something wrong! God Bless you all!

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Awesome! That doctor's a keeper!

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There are actually SOME good doctors out there, congratulations on having one of them for your doctor!

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Can it be true? A doctor listens to the parents and looks at the child in question. How is the child reacting to gluten? What are the symptoms? When you take the child off of gluten what happens? What happens when you challange the child with gluten? Let's do the blood test--negative. Let's go ahead and do the biopsy--negative. Let's re-examine the child's symptoms--

Diagnosis: We will treat Max as though he has Celiac disease. The biopsy is negative but all this means is that he's 2 and probably doesn't have enough damage to measure and maybe the samples weren't taken in JUST the right place. We won't have an official diagnosis, but as far as I'm (dr) concerned, Max has Celiac disease.

Yey congrats.. i think lol.

this proves that there are decent doctors in the world. I had the exact same thing happen to me .. negative biopsy.. but i was also pretty much asyptomatic (i had anemia and tiredness). But my GI (Dr P.J. Dale) diagnosed me anyway .. as far as i can tell most doctors would have said that the anemia was because im a girl and the tiredness is because of the anemia .. go take some iron and get over it. And its offical . its as if the biopsy was positive in everyones eyes.

thank God for doctors like ours :D i only wish all doctors could be so good.

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I have a great GI too...my blood was neg., and I was already gluten-free so he didn't try to make me do an endo...I had genetics, was found to have DQ2, and that was enough for him!

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