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    Did you purchase it thinking it was gluten free? The company doesn't advertise it as such do they? Barley is not one of the eight main allergens that the FDA requires to be posted in the allergen info. Wheat is but not barley. But good catch. We don't see many products with barley and rye as ingredients and it is easy to get lazy, not really read the detailed...
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    If gluten is the problem or the only problem I should say, your stools should have normalized by now. But many in the gluten intolerant/gluten sensitive population are also dairy intolerant. Try eliminating dairy from your diet and see if the issues improve.
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    Welcome to the forum, @RondaM! These two tests are celiac antibody tests and they both look to be negative: Endomysial Antibody IgA: Negative t-Transglutaminase (tTG): <2 We commonly refer to the t-Transglutaminase (tTG) as tTG-IGA. This one is what we commonly call "total IGA" and is on the high side: Immunoglobulin...
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    Some studies, with admittedly small sample sizes, show that about 50% of celiacs react to the protein casein in dairy the same way they do gluten. Can't find the NIH article I'm looking for but this one basically makes the point:
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    Sorry, in your first post you typed "a symptomatic" instead of "asymptomatic" so I misunderstood what you were saying. But anemia is a classic symptom of celiac disease.
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    Imodium and Pepto Bismol are relatively safe when used occasionally. Pepto Bismol will bind with medications. I cannot take it because it will interact with my coumadin. Pepto also contains aspirin in it so it can make platelets more slippery and the aspirin could also cause ulcers if Pepto is used too often. I'm not saying the restaurant meal is the...
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    Welcome to the forum, @Julianne101! Your experience is exceedingly common in the celiac community. First, regardless of how gluten free the food was in the restaurant experience you described actually started out to be, you have no idea what measures were taken in the cooking, preparation and handling to prevent cross contamination. Sounds...
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    Well, you have some decisions to make. If you want an endoscopy, you must start the "gluten challenge" and daily eat the gluten equivalent of 4-6 slices of bread for several weeks.
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    Your PCP is not well informed. The tTG-IGA is a very reliable celiac blood antibody test. There are some other foods, medications and diseases that can cause elevated tTG-IGA but the chances of the elevated tTG-IGA count being due to some other cause than celiac disease is not very great. This is especially true given your symptoms, your genetic profile and...
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    Keep us posted. I'm guessing there are others who would like to know how to make it for themselves. Stuff like that is expensive to buy ready made.
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    Well, questions just can't be answered except by hands on experimentation I guess. Press on!
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    Welcome to the forum, Rubii! A normal biopsy despite having classic celiac symptoms and a high score on the TTG-IGA antibody test could be cause by a couple of things. One, your celiac disease could have been caught at an early stage before enough time had lapsed for damage to be done to the villous lining of the small bowel. Second, and this is more...
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    There are two traditional Asian recipes for soy sauce. One contains wheat and it is the most popular one and the one you usually see in restaurants and on grocery shelves. The other does not contain wheat. Kikkoman makes a line of gluten free soy sauces and teriyaki sauces. Walmart and others carry them.
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    The only possible difference I would think would be whether or not either of the two is ground with the skin intact on the seeds.
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    I think 5 weeks should be sufficient but it probably doesn't matter if it's whole wheat or white as long as it's bread made from wheat flour.
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    Welcome to the forum, @RedPandi! I don't know that I'd make too much out of the variation in your reaction to different gluten-containing foods. It could be due to many things including the amount of gluten in different sources, how full or empty your gut is at the time of consumption, the buffering effects of other ingredients on the rate of digestion...
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    Ask for a more complete celiac panel that includes more than IGA antibody tests. Young children have immune systems that are immature and they often don't respond the same way to IGA antibody testing as adults do and so it can be valuable to check for IGG antibodies. Ask for: Total IgA TTG-IGA DGP-IGA DGP-IGG It is also possible she...
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    Welcome to the forum @MariaC! The test terminology you supplied is unfamiliar to me but I will assume Russ H is correct in his interpretation that they are not specific to celiac disease. Were there other celiac specific tests ordered that you did not list, perhaps ones that were negative? There are blood antibody tests designed to specifically...
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    I have been on Coumadin for years because I have a genetic blood clotting disorder known as Factor 5 Leiden. I think it's mainly green leafy veggies that you have to worry about. They are the ones high in vitamin K. And if your are consistent in your consumption of them it your INR should level out. I get my INR checked every 6 weeks. Certain medications...
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    Any NSAID has potential for creating peptic ulcers if used regularly. Some more than others. Cox 2 inhibitors are less prone to cause that issue but even they don't eliminate the possibility altogether. Coumadin does not harm the gut if you need a blood thinner.
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    I agree with knitty kitty.
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    So, did you get the decimal point wrong in both places? Was that original tTG-IGA 18.9 instead of 189? So, did it go from 18.9 up to 22.6 or from 189 down to 22.6? The endomycial (aka, EMA) is an older test and has generally been replaced by the tTG-IGA which is less expensive to perform and pretty much tests in the same way. It is more sensitive than...
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    Looks like what was not done that should have been done was Total IGA. If total IGA is low, it can drive other IGA scores down toward the negative range. Was he avoiding wheat-based foods by any chance when the blood draw was taken?
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    Welcome to the forum, @Deborah123! Can you be more specific about which blood test for celiac disease was done? Do you have a record of the testing that you can access? There are several that should be ordered by many physicians will only order the tTG-IGA which may not be a good choice for a child so young because their immune systems are immature. ...
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    RMJ makes a great point about the high level of antibodies continuing to do damage for awhile. I have participated in this forum for years and that is the highest tTG-IGA antibody score I have ever heard of by far! Did you really mean to typed 3000 and not 300?
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