I know a case like that. He was unfortunate enough to have doctors that were unable to diagnose him properly. When he started the diet in his thirties and his absolutely debilitating health condition got a lot better in so many ways, it was such a relief!
But also, there are people who are not celiacs but do have an intolerance, and the diet is worth trying if someone thinks it may be their case.
It’s possible to be delibitated and not know why. Until you stop eating gluten and get better. You should watch House MD, House is always using the treatment as the test. He tries something and sees if the patient gets better. Many of those patients are dying and he still doesn’t know what they have until he tries a treatment.
I remember a medical friend rolling his eyes at the show when it was airing, because usually he could guess what the end diagnosis could be from the symptoms. House was just really good at making the drama about the doctor interject and extend the eyeball time into the hour long episode
Blood test has poor reliability, and you have to eat gluten to get it which makes many people too sick to even get tested
The gold standard is a biopsy of the duodenum but again you need to be eating like 20g of gluten a day for a few weeks and many people get too sick after even a few milligrams
Neither diagnoses NCGS, non Celiac gluten sensitivity. The only test is to stop eating gluten.
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No you don’t, not for celiac. It’s symptoms are debilitating.
I know a case like that. He was unfortunate enough to have doctors that were unable to diagnose him properly. When he started the diet in his thirties and his absolutely debilitating health condition got a lot better in so many ways, it was such a relief!
But also, there are people who are not celiacs but do have an intolerance, and the diet is worth trying if someone thinks it may be their case.
Yeah, but that’s not the gluten allergy.
The guy I was talking about in the first paragraph was a celiac.
I was talking about the second.
That was meant as another example of people for whom trying the diet can be relevant.
It’s possible to be delibitated and not know why. Until you stop eating gluten and get better. You should watch House MD, House is always using the treatment as the test. He tries something and sees if the patient gets better. Many of those patients are dying and he still doesn’t know what they have until he tries a treatment.
House is in no way a realistic medical show
I remember a medical friend rolling his eyes at the show when it was airing, because usually he could guess what the end diagnosis could be from the symptoms. House was just really good at making the drama about the doctor interject and extend the eyeball time into the hour long episode
Are you saying doctors don’t give patients treatments for unknown diseases to see if they’ll work?
Not the way House does!
It’s obvious you’ve never had to go through this because generally no, that does not happen often.
Well My doctors say “take this and we’ll see if it works” all the time.
That’s for known diseases. We were talking about unknown. And House is not realistic at all.
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No you don’t. They can do a blood test for it now.
Blood test has poor reliability, and you have to eat gluten to get it which makes many people too sick to even get tested
The gold standard is a biopsy of the duodenum but again you need to be eating like 20g of gluten a day for a few weeks and many people get too sick after even a few milligrams
Neither diagnoses NCGS, non Celiac gluten sensitivity. The only test is to stop eating gluten.
Eh, you haven’t worked in food service.
What always sent me was the people who ordered gravy after telling me they were gluten sensitive…