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My daughter's endoscopy results came back. Nothing but a ittle inflamation near the top of her esophagus, indicative of slight reflux. No Celiac sprue, no bad bacteria, no parasites, no strophic gastritis, or esophageal allergies. Have to wait till next week to get the results of the disacharidase levels. The doctor does not see a need to do any more...

Living is bad for your health. Yeah, that's why I'm telling them to have two options on career paths. Sometimes big corporate layoffs force you into small-business / free-lance work. I think it is important to get the diagnosis, but I understand the tightrope we walk in trying to ensure the insurability of our children.

Thanks everyone.

Would allergy shots or food allergy drops interfere with the results of biopsies?

Being young, your daughter could possibly have Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, and have her TSH and Free T4 still look nomal, which are the only two tests that most doctors do. With Hashi's, her hormones could be jumping around, and you just happened to catch them on a good day. If your daughter gets a Celiacs diagnosis, your should get the thyroid more closely...

Another couple of things to consider. If a blood test is done, and the total IgA level is below normal, you could also be dealing with an immunodeficiency, which could be associated with the swollen lymph nodes. In this case, the serum testing would not be able to determine Celiacs, because of the deficienct IgA. You can learn more about this at Open...

Thanks for all of the ideas. I definitely want to make sure the doctor makes the most of the endoscopy and biopsies. I'm still getting a feel for how much "patient self-advocacy" he is workable with. He did not attempt to reason with me on the endoscopy, he let me do the reasoning and said, "Okay, we will do it then." However, when I called him back...

We've already been encouraging our children that they should focus their studies on two career choices, and that one of them should be geared toward getting a job with a large company or governmental organization, so that any pre-existing conditions will be covered by the group health policy. (The other career choice should allow them to start their own business...

Thanks for the help shay and mft. If this is the case, why not just skip the upper endoscopy and biopsy and proceed straight to the gluten-free test? Is their additional information that can be gained by doing the upper endoscopy and biopsy, such as bacterial or parasitic infection, that makes doing the upper endoscopy still worthwhile?

Hello, I'm new here. I was referred to this forum by the folks at the RealThyroidHelp forum. My daughter (11 years old) has been having "stomach" problems for he last couple of years. The doctor initially just put her on prilosec, which helped a little, but not consistently. The doctor just recently referred us to an allergist and to a gastroenterologist...