Celiac's blood test results help

[nikki2975]

Advice needed please

[Clutter]

Nikkie2975,

Assuming you were eating normal amounts of gluten prior to your screen your result is negative for coeliac disease.

[nikki2975 in reply to Clutter]

I'm not really eating gluten at the moment as far as i know but i'm happy it's negative.

[Clutter in reply to nikki2975]

Nikki2975,

You should eat gluten daily in at least one meal in the six weeks prior to testing otherwise the result is skewed and you will get a negative result even though you may have coeliac disease.

[nikki2975 in reply to Clutter]

I was never told I had to do that. Maybe my doctor just assumed I was eating it daily. I think I eat it most days just not every day.

[mourneadventurer]

Hello Nikki2975,

perhaps have a look at this website for the Gluten Free Society. glutenfreesociety.org/genet...

Dr Peter Osbourne is the author of No Grain No Pain and the short video is enlightening.

Finding out if you have Single Nucleotide Genetic Marker (SNP's) in the HLA-DQA sequence will be a definitive answer. However environmental factors have to collide to activate the gene and express full-blown Coeliac disease.

Best Wishes

Mourneadventurer