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  1. TammyTE
    Her total IgA was 68. The range was 17-94 but I don't know if that was for a certain age or not. Her AGA IgA was 3 which was supposed to be <20 so considered negative. her AGA IgG was 34 which was supposed to be <20 so considered "strong positive".
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    Her blood allergy test only showed egg as true allergy and peanuts as highly sensitive. (Along with wheat and a bunch of other things.) To me, she seems to have an allergic reaction to peanuts as well. That's why we are going for the skin prick test now. What you said makes sense. I certainly hope that wheat does NOT show up as allergy so it will be cut...
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    We have the appt with the allergist on February 5th. I wonder if I should just go ahead and keep the diet "normal" until then and make a decision at that point. I mean, if I cut wheat and *then* cut other allergies (besides the eggs and nuts which are already gone from the diet) I won't know for certain what is truly helping. Decisions, decisions.
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    Oh I forgot to mention. The doctor said that all the diarrhea happening when eating wheat could have been from all the fiber. The other thing was that dd has gained weight since adding gluten into the diet. She was not at all malnourished when grain free but was on the small side for her age. Still very healthy looking though. Now she is still small but...
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    Thanks. Good to know about the absorption problems. Thanks. Thing is...she didn't give me any kind of paper saying anything about avoiding gluten. She ignored the part of the test that said strong positive for gluten intolerance and said those numbers don't matter. I just looked at the paper from her and it says, "Okay to stay on regular...
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    We home school so that's not an issue, but I thought it was good to know if you had true celiac vs. gluten intolerance. Mainly for future insurance coverage and knowing the possibilities of things like low bone density. Is it true that those with celiac disease can have those problems but those with gluten intolerance won't? I will also admit that it...
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    Thanks Nicole. This doctor isn't the one that ordered the test. The Nurse Practitioner that ordered the test for me said my dd was "most likely" celiac. Since she said that I decided to take her to a GI doctor that I thought would know more about celiac. So I just showed the new GI doc the test we already had. As for the allergy testing, I am not at...
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    When I posted before someone here said based on my daughter's AGA IgG levels she is probably celiac. That's similar to what the NP allergy person that did this test said. I took dd and my ds to a pediatric GI doctor today. The GI said that they only use the top two numbers on the test now. That these are the gold standard and none of the other ones matter...
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    Really? Wow! My poor kids are going to be so confused. LOL So do you guys think even if my son's blood test comes back negative I should do more testing for him with the GI doc since he shows signs of gluten intolerance/celiac? I scheduled the appt for both of them because they are the two I have had tested so far. My other three dc are scheduled in...
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    So you are saying my son didn't have enough gluten in his system for the blood test? (I am very frustrated because he was supposed to have gotten this test earlier but they failed to check the box requesting it...sigh.) By "regular" gluten diet do you mean a piece of bread a day or??
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    My 2 year old was mostly grain free from 10mos till about 14mos then I would say 100% grain free till she was 22months old. At that point we added all grains back in the diet. (We were doing this diet for another dc and this is just how it worked out for her.) So she was eating gluten daily since late August/early September. She had a blood draw late...
  12. TammyTE
    Thank you both! We were grain free for about 10 months and I saw great results with others in the family. We weren't really watching for cross contamination but probably didn't get much with the whole foods diet we were following. So I am used to this type of meal plan. I just got burnt out and was unsure if I was doing the right thing for my family...
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    I asked this question on a site for kids with allergies but I am now understanding that celiac is not an allergy.(?) So I will post here to see if someone can help me. I have five children and have had two tesed for food allergies using the IgG/IgE antibody blood test. I'll bold the gluten part for you all here. I would like to know if this test could...
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