Re: Food Intollerance/Allergy Results via Endoscopy/Colonoscopy

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Hi a,

No, a problem with gluten would not necessarily show up on the

endoscopy. Did they do a biopsy? They are looking for villious

atrophy in the biopsy. That is the " definition " of celiac disease.

1. You can have a problem with gluten, but not yet have villious

atrophy.

2. You can have villious atrophy, but if it isn't EVERYWHERE, they may

biopsy a section that doesn't show it.

Was your ds actively eating gluten up until the day of the procedure?

If he had been gluten free or very low gluten, he may have had enough

healing of the villi that atrophy didn't show up.

Do you know what his duodenum looked like? Were the ridges really

sharp or worn down looking?

Oh, and lactose intolerance almost always goes hand-in-hand with

celiac. The enzymes required for breaking down lactose are produced at

the tips of the villi, so when the villi start to suffer damage, they

don't produce the enzyme.

HTH,

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> Hi all,

>

> My son underwent an endo/colonoscopy due to his severe bloating and

> other issues and what came back was he is lactose intollerant. A

> couple years ago my NT dd had the same procedure and she was the one

> that came back with wheat,soy, peanut allergy. If my son had a

> problem with gluten wouldn't it have come up on the endo/colonoscopy?

> Does anyone know?

>

> Thanks for the help,

> a

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