Osprey101

I finally found some relevant work: "Is a life-long gluten-free diet for patients with celiac disease successful?" from 2005, and "Compliance of adolescents with coeliac disease with a gluten free diet" in Gut from 1991. Each of these papers (the first one of which is largely an opinion piece) has references that are pertinent, and I can make do from...

I have a really stupid question, and I was hoping someone here might be able to help me find the answer. I have been searching for references indicating the gluten-free diet is safe and effective. I'm not challenging the concept that it is- I am simply looking for stuff in peer-reviewed, refereed literature indicating that someone has studied a group of...

For me, the biggest symptom was the Big D. After suffering two months, my PA suggested it was either IBD or celiac- which was a red flag, as I have close relatives with it. After three days, things improved- then got worse for two days. Then two good days, one bad day, and about a week of very good days. After the first week or two, the mouth pain I was experiencing...

Amen to that! After enough time without wg in your diet, your labs will show a reduced antibody response. One lab says they'll still show up even after 1-2 weeks of dietary exclusion, but why guess? If the biopsy shows the villi were damaged, that's a good reason to believe a celiac diet is good for you. Really the "gold standard" test is dietary...

Sed rate (sedimentation rate) is the rate at which red blood cells fall in uncoagulated (non-clotted) blood in a clean glass tube. An elevated rate means inflammation- but it does not give a cause. It is a simple test that can be used with other, more powerful tests; an elevated sed rate on its own is not useful. IgM is a bit more complicated. From Wikipedia...

Good for you on the labs. Maybe they changed tests and forgot to change the reference ranges- but that never should have happened. As a practical matter (one which will help keep YOU sane!), try ditching the gluten and see how the entire family responds. It will be easier to prepare meals, there will be less concern with respect to kitchen hygiene, and...

You'd also have to check and see if he was intending on performing an antibody test, or a DNA test. Just "blood test" is a little vague; he almost certainly means antibody, but he could mean he wants to check for the gene.

I'm a biochemist with a background in medicine (vaccines, actually- nothing to do with celiac), and after two months of exquisite discomfort, I finally saw a PA (I couldn't see a GI for over a month). After two rounds of tests, she narrowed it down to IBD or celiac. A light came on, as my aunt had told me she had celiac- as did her daughter, and one of her...