The second stage of celiac disease diagnosis is a biopsy, where a small camera is put down the child’s throat into the small intenstines and a small sample taken from the wall of the intestine to see if there is evidence of damage caused by a reaction to gluten. With children they do this under [...] Read more »
Celiac Disease Diagnosis I
Jamie’s Celiac disease diagnosis first came about Easter of this year. We hadn’t noticed any symptoms of celiac disease (not that we would have known what to look for – I don’t think we had ever heard of it!) but he suddenly seemed to be getting a lot of tummyaches. At first we didn’t take [...] Read more »
