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  1. Ranchers Wife
    Oh, you poor thing! If it were at all possible, you could have the endoscopy in two weeks, and if it was negative repeat the endoscopy in 5 1/2 months. But since your GI doc is dubious about a celiac diagnosis given your negative blood test for Celiac antibodies, the more conservative approach would indeed be a return to eating gluten and then the...
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    I would suggest that you get a good copy of the celiac antibody testing, and do your best to get an appointment with a very good pediatric gastroenterologist, or just a very good gastroenterologist. That might be by referral from the allergist, or her pediatrician perhaps.
  3. Ranchers Wife
    Yeah, if you understood correctly what the doctor told the husband, then the doctor is...not accurate. I like Flaming Idiot. Perhaps not politically correct, though. If the husband had no positive celiac antibody tests (there are more than one), and no villi damage with the endoscopy....then he doesn't have celiac disease right now. Assuming, as SquirmingItch...
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    Stop with handling, feeding, and cleaning up after the school gerbil. I can just about guarantee that the gerbil food has wheat in it. While it's pretty unlikely that she's eating gerbil food, inhaling dust is enough to stimulate an autoimmune reaction in someone with celiac disease. My husband and I are both celiac. We both...
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    Sorry, everyone, but my celiac husband and my (probably celiac but undiagnosed) self just got a big box of Sees chocolates as a Christmas thank you gift. So I went online to determine the gluten free status of See's candies. The quote from the allergen information page on the See's website states that ..."See's candies are not gluten...
  6. Ranchers Wife
    Do you have any animals? My husband did not improve on a gluten free diet... until we figured out that he was breathing barley and rye dust, LOTS of it, when he fed the cattle. He also reacts when we put out (wheat) straw bedding, we switched to pine shavings. If your daughter feeds chickens, horses, cattle, sheep, goats...or anything that...
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