Re: malabsorbtion problems

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> Since this seems to be a common symptom with mercury poisoning - how

> do you know its not celiac disease? I'm thinking about getting

> tested for this - just to be safe.

TK--- if you can get it done through ins or it is not expensive it

won't hurt to do it.

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> Since this seems to be a common symptom with mercury poisoning - how

> do you know its not celiac disease? I'm thinking about getting

> tested for this - just to be safe.

My dad has Caeliac disease. he is hair test 70.

www.livingnetwork.co.za/healinnetwork/hairtest.html

But, he has not eaten any gluten for more than 15 years. I'm trying to

figure out if that plays a role in his severe all-low profile. He certainly

has a lot of dental work.

I'm assuming the all-low profile has to do with mercury toxicity as the

intestines should have recovered by now after so long without any poison?

Are these the correct way to determine Celiac disease now:

............You can go for blood tests to test for Celiac, but for them to be

of any benefit, you have to have been eating gluten (some say for 2 weeks

and some say at least 6 weeks). Otherwise it will probably show up negative

if you have been on a gluten free diet before blood testing.

These blood tests can show up celiac disease for often. Thereafter a small

intestine biopsy is definitive.

1. anti-gliadin IgA Antibody

2. anti-gliadin IgG Antibody

3. anti-transglutaminase IgA Antibody (tTGA)

4. Immunoglobulin IgA (IgA)

5> IgA anti-endomysium antibodies (AEA)

Enterolab (stool) and blood tests are inconclusive if you cannot produce

IgA. Some enterolab reports says this is the case for 1 in 500 people. The

Great Smokies (now Genova) report for the blood tests says that people WITH

celiac have a 10-15 times greater frequency of deficient IgA.

If it will be very costly for you to do stool or blood celiac testing, you

might test IgA first and skip it if you don't produce IgA. In that case,

biopsy or gluten-free diet trial would be better..............

Thanks,

Dean