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nicholasmommy
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 Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject: Positive blood test results |
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Hi! My son is 19 months old and is considered failure to thrive. He was blood tested for celiac and it came out positive. We will be having a biopsy done next week.
I am wondering how common is it to get a positive blood results and have it actually be celiac in small children?
I am just dying to know what is wrong with my little man
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aklap
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Location: WI, USA
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Hi Nick's Mom,
Welcome to the board. Having a positive result on blood work is one step closer to having an answer. Failure to thrive is a huge symptom in children. It sounds like you could be on the right track. If you haven't seen it already, you look thru Our Thread on Celiac Testing. There's lots of info there that might help.
It's not as common to dx them so young, but the medical community has done it often - at least the sharper ones have. It's felt that kids don't produce enough of the antibodies to show in the blood work until their around 5 years - give or take.
Edit to add:
http://www.practicalgastro.com/pdf/April08/PG_Apr08JatlaArticle.pdf
| Quote: | In children, the most common age of presentation
is 6–24 months. The most common gastrointestinal
symptoms are chronic or recurrent diarrhea, abdominal
distension, anorexia, failure to thrive or weight loss,
abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation, and irritability |
Also be prepared to test others [you, hubby, Nick's siblings, other family members], if Nick get a diagnosis of CD. CD is genetic....so he's getting the genes from someone. Having the genetic make doesn't mean you'll have CD - just that you are in a higher risk category.
Just out of curiosity - at what age did you introduce gluten [wheat,barley, rye or oats] into his diet?
The next step on diagnosing him is to get a biopsy. Biopsy is the gold standard for this disease. With a gold dx, this will open up doors for him when he gets to be school aged. It's called the 504 plan.
Please keep us updated on Nick's progress!
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cruelshoes
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Just to ad to what Al said (all good info), please do not remove gluten from your son's diet until you have completed the testing. As much as it might seem like a good idea, removing gluten too soon can skew the test results. It could make it seem like a negative when he really has it.
Please let ue know how the biopsy results turn out. We are here to help you through the process.
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