tested for celiacs?

I was recently tested for inflammation, gluten intollerance, and a few other things, still awaiting results. I began drinking/eating with cereal ALMOND MILK, which i got from the " what is everyone eating for breakfast forum". Somehow, someway, it seemed to help HUGELY. for several days this kept up, going 3x per day ( instead of 10 to 15), firming stools, less or little blood. Yesterdat, finally, my f factor bars showed up, and I ate a bite of one before seeing that thay contain wheat. Last night, i was sadly back to blood water. I did eat a shrip and spinach salad for lunch but have no problems with lobster... Im wondering if itcould be the wheat?

Sorry for the spelling errors this phone is a piece of **** and won't let me correct them.

Who all has been definitively tested for gluten intolerance ,anyone?

Just to make sure, you were tested for Gluten intolerance and not coeliacs or gluten allergy? What kind of test?

I just had blood drawn last week for coeliacs and am awaiting the results. I've gone GF before and didn't really notice a difference, but I wanted it excluded as a potential influence in my UC.

cherchezlafemme said...
I was tested for celiac's (blood test) last Friday and will pick up my results tomorrow. If negative, then business as usual; if positive, then my doc is going to take a sample from someplace (don't recall what she said) in my GI tract to confirm. Will update once I know something.

She'll probably take biopsies from your duodenum. Celiacs often involves that portion, the villi will be flat instead of curvy.

FreddyJ, good decision on your part to maintain a gluten free diet, if you can. One of my stool tests came back positive for gluten intolerance and I'm trying to be very strict. But keep in mind that gluten intolerance can manifest like celiac, and cause so many of the same problems, and that abstaining from every known ingredient containing gluten (and best to stay away from wheat also) should help you notice a difference. It doesn't happen overnight though.

For example, I've done extensive testing in my GI tract/immune system, and all of my antinucleur/body inflammatory levels came back negative (which rheumatologists or other arthritis specialists would use to determine auto-immune joint diseases), meaning that my pains could attribute to gluten.

Here is a great list provided by celiac.com on all of the unsafe gluten ingredients to eat in products:

www.celiac.com/articles/182/1/Unsafe-Gluten-Free-Food-List-Unsafe-Ingredients/Page1.html

and here is a list of ingredients known in cosmetics that would contain gluten:

Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Flour
Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract
Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Oil
Avena Sativa (Oat) Bran
Cocodimonium Hydroxypropyl Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein
Cyclodextrin
Dextrin
Dextrin Palmitate
Disodium Wheatgermamphodiacetate
Hordeum Vulgare Extract
Hydrolyzed Malt Extract
Hydrolyzed Oat Flour
Hydrolyzed Oat Protein
Hydrolyzed Oats
Hydrolyzed Wheat Flour
Hydrolyzed Wheat Gluten
Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein
Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein/PVP Crosspolymer
Hydrolyzed Wheat Starch
Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein
Laurdimonium Hydroxypropyl Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein
Malt Extract
Maltodextrin
Secale Cereale (Rye) Seed Flour
Sodium C8-16 Isoalkylsuccinyl Wheat Protein Sulfonate
Sodium Lauroyl Oat Amino Acid
Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Germ Extract
Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Germ Oil
Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Gluten
Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Starch
Wheat Amino Acids
Wheat Germ Glycerides
Wheat Germamidopropalkonium Chloride
Wheat Protein
Wheatgermamidopropyl Ethyldimonium Ethosulfate
Yeast Extract

Hope this helps!

Active UCer, I did two specific tests to help understand my auto-immune condition. A saliva test through Diagnos-Techs, Inc (for the purpose of testing the adrenal glands and their functions + gluten intolerance) and a gut function + immune system test through Metametrix Clinical Labs, also testing for gluten intolerance.

My Diagnos-Techs results explain how to determine gluten intolerance: "Gliadins are polypeptides found in wheat, rye, oat, barley and other grain glutens, and are toxic to the intestinal mucosa in susceptible individuals. Healthy adults and children may have a positive antigliadin test because of subclinical gliadin intolerance. Some of their symptoms include mild enteritis, occasional loose stools, fat intolerance marginal vitamin and mineral status, fatigue or accelerated osteoporosis.
Scan J. Gastroenterol. 29:248 (1994)."

My Gliadin Ab, SIgA (Saliva) was 15 (borderline) or positive, pretty much.
This would be a good test to do for determining gluten intolerance.

Key:

Borderline: 13-15 U/ml
Positive: >15 U/ml

Here is the page for Diagnos-Techs, Inc: www.diagnostechs.com/Pages/ASIPatientOverview.aspx.

However, my other test through Metametrix confirmed a high amount of yeast overgrowth (possibly causing my auto-immune), so by going gluten free and supplementing/attacking the yeast in my body, I hope to achieve some positive results!

I'm a GLUTEN FREEK at the moment, hope this helps.

Post Edited (stereofidelic89) : 8/17/2012 3:53:47 PM (GMT-6)