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Re: Celiac, more questions!       04/13/04 06:09 PM Edit Reply Quote Kandee Reged: 05/22/03 Posts: 3206 Loc: USA, Southern California It is my understanding that the rate of a false positives (and negatives) is very common with the blood test. The gold standard lays in the endoscope test. Even that can yield a false negative if the person being tested has avoided gluten for a number of weeks. It all boils down to how you feel with you go off wheat/barley/rye even though a test yields a negative result. Then too, Celiac disease can mask itself as IBS so in some respects it may be difficult to know what you have unless you test positive with the villa biopsy (I think that's right) during the endoscope. Then too, there is the posibility you may have both. But your best bet is to do what JenX said and go to celiac.com. They'll have the answers you seek. The newest I've read is that we have more celiac than ever before and it seems to be on the rise, something like up to 1 in 5 over the next 20 years. -------------------- Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator

Entire thread Celiac, more questions! rlan 04/13/04 03:49 PM Re: Celiac, more questions! crc 04/14/04 05:45 AM celiac sprue jenX 04/13/04 05:28 PM Re: Celiac, more questions! abby82 04/13/04 05:14 PM Re: Celiac, more questions! hawkeye 04/13/04 05:09 PM Re: Celiac, more questions! Kandee 04/13/04 06:09 PM

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