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0 pointsBeijinger1y ago0 comments

ROTFL. How? Enzyme test? There are three different ones. All of them are unreliable, hence normally doctors do all of them at once.

Gene test?

Trying to avoid gluten?

Don't forget, first you have to suspect to have a gluten problem. There are many forms of celiac. And there are forms that are unlikely to be diagnosed by a doctor. They may even not know what you have if you tell them the name of the disease and have to google it.

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petercooper1y ago

And in many cases it's also necessary to provoke the problem in order to test properly. I've been on a gluten free diet for ten years (my skin kept falling off, stopped when I quit gluten, father had celiac) and always test negative because I won't gorge on gluten for the two weeks necessary for antibodies to show up (simply as I don't have a month spare to be ill).

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