Enterolab Results For 4yo Ds.

[thundersweet]

I just had him tested for gluten sensitivity. He suffers from eczema. Does this mean he is absolutely to stay away from gluten 100%? Is this a high result? We are on vacation until Sunday but plan to get back to gluten free when we get home. We had all gone gluten free a week before we left home and a week before we sent the stool sample and somehow, I allowed my children to go off of it while we are at the beach. I gues I just wasn't sure they needed to be gluten free. I am awaiting my dd's test results as well.

Gluten Sensitivity Stool Test

Fecal Antigliadin IgA 27 (Normal Range <10 Units)

Interpretation of Fecal Antigliadin IgA: Intestinal antigliadin IgA antibody was elevated, indicating that you have active dietary gluten sensitivity. For optimal health, resolution of symptoms (if you have them), and prevention of small intestinal damage and malnutrition, osteoporosis, and damage to other tissues (like nerves, brain, joints, muscles, thyroid, pancreas, other glands, skin, liver, spleen, among others), it is recommended that you follow a strict and permanent gluten free diet. As gluten sensitivity is a genetic syndrome, you may want to have your relatives screened as well.

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Stool Analysis performed by: Frederick Ogunji, Ph.D., EnteroLab

Molecular Gene Analysis performed by: American Red Cross

Interpretation of all results by: Kenneth D. Fine, M.D., EnteroLab

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Thanks for looking!

Sandy

[ShayFL]

I think a gluten-free diet is worth trying to see if his skin clears up.

[Fiddle-Faddle]

Looks pretty darn clear to me.

You don't make anti-gliadin antibodies unless you have a problem with gliadin (the portion of gluten that causes problems).

If DS's immune system is making antibodies to gliadin, that means you shouldn't give it to him, unless you want his immune system to attack his body--which is what is already happening with his eczema.

They even tell you why he should completely avoid gluten: " for prevention of small intestinal damage and malnutrition, osteoporosis, and damage to other tissues (like nerves, brain, joints, muscles, thyroid, pancreas, other glands, skin, liver, spleen, among others), it is recommended that you follow a strict and permanent gluten free diet. "

There are people on this board who would give a limb if their parents had known enough to have them avoid gluten. Most of them have permanent damage from gluten. Look up the sig of some of the more senior members here, such as ravenwoodglass, debmidge, darlindeb, Ursa Major.

And welcome aboard (some welcome, huh?)!

[thundersweet]

Thanks! Just to be clear, I just got his results today. I have not been knowingly feeding him gluten. Now that I have this information, he will be gluten free...along with me. I guess I was just curious if his score was high for gluten intolerance. I see now that any amount over what is normal is doing damage. What I meant by asking the question...does he needs to be 100%....was do I need to be as concerned as a person with celiac as far as cross contamination goes?

I showed my mom the results and she said.."I'm just not sure what those results mean." She said I needed to be sure the results were acurate because this meant a life long avoidance from gluten. Basically, she doesn't believe the results. UGH!

Thanks,

Sandy

[mftnchn]

Yes, what I understand about the labs is a positive is a positive, and the "high" or "low" positive isn't such an important distinction.

The thing you may wish to try to determine is if he is gluten sensitive (could be various reasons) or celiac.

[ravenwoodglass]

Thanks! Just to be clear, I just got his results today. I have not been knowingly feeding him gluten. Now that I have this information, he will be gluten free...along with me. I guess I was just curious if his score was high for gluten intolerance. I see now that any amount over what is normal is doing damage. What I meant by asking the question...does he needs to be 100%....was do I need to be as concerned as a person with celiac as far as cross contamination goes?

I showed my mom the results and she said.."I'm just not sure what those results mean." She said I needed to be sure the results were acurate because this meant a life long avoidance from gluten. Basically, she doesn't believe the results. UGH!

Thanks,

Sandy

Yes you do need to be as strict with the diet whether he is celiac or gluten intolerant. They really are the same animal, IMHO, just with sometimes different presentations. As said I would give anything to have been diagnosed at his age when it was mostly just my skin and brain that were effected. It would be 30 years before I developed the GI stuff with any regualarity and by then the damage to the rest of my body was severe. It would be another 15 before I was finally diagnosed. My DS is also celiac but they never even tested him until after I was finally diagnosed. Being diagnosed before he was 20 would have made an incredible difference for him. Gluten can very negatively impact the ability to learn and can also have some social effects. Most noticeably when the teen years hit. You have the chance to make a very positive difference in his life. Even if he reaches adulthood and decides the diet is too much of a 'pain', the years he spent gluten free will make a real difference in the life he leads as an adult.

[GlutenWrangler]

Can someone tell me what DS stands for? Anyway you should definitely keep him off of all gluten.

[nora-n]

DS is dear son, meanning son, DD is dear daughter, or daughter, DD2 is the second eldest daughter, etc......

On other forums, DH stands for Dear Husband, but here it stands for Dermatitis Herpetiformis.

nora

[GlutenWrangler]

Thank you...that's been eating away at me for a while. I knew that S stood for son, H for husband, D for daughter, etc...but I could never figure out what the first D stood for.