Re: adhesion diet
From: Margaret (jgardner11@gardener.com)
Sun Feb 13 12:46:51 2005
Just a little Celiac note here- if your doctor thinks
you have celiac disease (an autoimmune reaction to
gluten that damages the small intestine and causes
malabsorption) its best to have the full bloodwork
for celiac, and the small intestine biopsies before
stopping wheat/gluten. Once you've stopped wheat/
gluten and the intestine has healed and the antibody
levels have dropped, its often too hard to get a
diagnosis.So they should do all the workups while
the poor intestine is still in bad shape, if you
want a good firm diagnosis.
Some of the new blood tests are pretty accurate,
but the small intestine biopsies are still the
best way to go. Even then sometimes they don't
show anything if the damage is patchy.The biopsies
are painless, they do them with the 'scope, from
the top. You have to make sure you find professions
that know what they are doing, however (I think that
is the case with everything!) to both do the biopsies
and read the slides.
--
Margaret
It's been only a few days, but I haven't gotten
>sick once since I stopped the wheat/gluten.