Cleaning Of Intestine

[MBOLARSEN]

Hi!

A week before I will get my biopsy done I have to go through a cleaning of my intestine during a colonoscopy..

Anybody who know if this cleaning of my intestine may have any kind of effect on the biopsyresult, even if have been eating a huge amounts of gluten every day during the past 2 months?

[nora-n]

Usuallly we only get the upper endoscopy done, with multiple biopsies of the duodenum, and for that we only have to fast from midnight.

I have not heard about any problems regarding diagnosing celiac if one has a "double dip" like you have planned.

They take samples of the villi in the duodenum, and check if they are flattened, and count the IEL cells on the villi tips. At least they should.

Check out www.thefooddoc.com 's blog about the IELs. I hope they take enough samples, like at least 12-15 , often they just go by the old recommendations, which are 4.

nora

[sbj]

I had my colonoscopy and endoscopy done on same day - I think most people do the same. So I 'cleaned' out my intestine for the two days previous. My biopsy results were positive even after the 'cleansing' so this is not an issue in any way. You can't 'clean' away damage to the mucosal layer of your duodenum. If we could I suppose we wouldn't need this diet ...

BTW, next time tell your GI to do both procedures at the same time. It's not very nice of him/her to put you through two different fasts and potential local anesthesia one week apart.

[neesee]

I had been unable to eat anything for a solid month before my biopsy and I still had a very positive biopsy. The cleanout won't make any difference at all.

neesee