IGA deficiency test?

[Cooper27]

Does anyone know if you need to have gluten in your diet to be tested for IGA deficiency?

[Narwhal10]

Sorry Cooper,I’ve no idea but am interested to know.

[Cooper27 in reply to Narwhal10]

I spoke to my GP to discuss the possibility of a false negative/IGA deficiency (a private test I did for something else suggests I'm not capable of producing IGA) but my GP seemed to think there are no other tests available.

To be honest, I think my GP thinks I'm a crackpot for continuing to query this because they seem to think that the chances of false negatives on the IGA test are negligible.

[Narwhal10 in reply to Cooper27]

Thanks Cooper27,GPs have a broad range of knowledge about conditions but don’t know intricacies.

I’m going down the functional medicine route and can ask my practitioner who I feel would know a tad more.

Best wishes

[Penel]

Hi Cooper27

It doesn’t look as though you need to be eating gluten. This article explains the link between IGA deficiency and potential health problems including coeliac disease. It does suggest that if you are IGA deficient then you should be tested for Coeliac disease, so eating gluten would be necessary in that case.

beyondceliac.org/celiac-dis...

[Cooper27 in reply to Penel]

I don't think I said thank you for this at the time Penel, but thank you, this was quite helpful