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My oldest child has recently presented with a small group of tiny blister like spots on his knee. The spots are only on one knee and he says they are very itchy. He has scratched then to the point that they have popped and are now scabbed over.

I am wondering if there is a "standard" size that these blisters are? Does it vary? Do they have to appear on both sides of the body or can they appear on just one? He has never been tested for Celiac. Our pediatrician is old school and believes that "he would have tummy problems" if he had celiac...

My Celiac child never had this kind of reaction so this is new to me. My #2 was all intestinal problems.

I have looked through so much stuff that I am actually getting more confused.

Thanks in advance...

Dallas


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bunzilla Newbie

It sounds alot like my initial symptoms. Although I was 49 when it first appeared. It started on one Knee. Of course at first I had no idea what it was. It later spread to the other usual places. I had no intestinal symptoms that I could associate with it.

Diagnosed through blood test, skin biopsy, and endoscopic biopsy with DH and, of course, celiac.

If celiac already runs in the family I would say there is a very good chance that is what it is. I.M H.O.

good luck.

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I had no intestinal symptoms that I could associate with it.

Diagnosed through blood test, skin biopsy, and endoscopic biopsy with DH and, of course, celiac.

If celiac already runs in the family I would say there is a very good chance that is what it is. I.M H.O.

good luck.

If the boy has not already been tested for celiac disease he should be, regardless of symptoms or lack of. As a sibling of a diagnosed celiac he has ten times the risk of the general population of developing it.

DH is usually symetrical (appears on both sides of body in same place), and can be diagnosed by skin biopsy. When you have diagnosis of DH you also have diagnosis of celiac disease, no gut biopsy needed.

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