Gluten free diet blog

How long has your son been on the gfcf diet? The reason I am asking is if ithas been more than just a few weeks (I’m not sure exactly how long), even if hedoes have celiac disease the main tests will come out negative, as his body willno longer “recognize” the proteins in the way that makes the test come outpositive. Please let your doctor know how long it has been before the testingsince your son last had gluten, so he will know whether or not the results arereliable. I believe there is one test that can be done to check whether he hasthe gene for celiac even if he is still gluten-free. If he doesn’t have it,there’s no way (at least as I understand it) that he can have celiac disease. Ifhe has the gene, you don’t know if he does or doesn’t have it based on this testalone, but if you’ve already got him gluten-free with good results as far asother things, I don’t think I’d take him off the diet if I were you, at leastpermanently. Your doctor might want you to put him back on gluten for a few weeks before repeating the celiac tests you had done,but I’d really think hard before doing that if you’ve seen a lot of differencein him from going gluten and casein-free, depending on why you need theinformation regarding celiac disease. As someone else has posted to this oranother thread, the only difference it would make is if you’re considering goingoff the diet using enzymes, because the enzymes wouldn’t counteract the effectsof gluten on a celiac’s intestinal (and other) systems, much as they are likelyto help with behavioral effects of gluten. (Note, from what I understand, somekids can’t tolerate enzymes and of those who can, not all can successfully gooff the diet with them, even of those who aren’t celiac, but they are oftenhelped by them above what benefit the diet alone has.)

What changes did you see in your son from before you started him on the diet?Maybe if you post this someone who has experience with celiac disease cancomment on whether it’s likely.