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Living With Celiac Disease
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Finding out you have celiac disease or even a gluten sensitivity can be overwhelming,depressing and bring up a lot of confusion and anxiety. Amber and April of The Healthy Edge both have celiac disease and offer some amazing support and advice on how to live a normal, safe and fulfilled life!
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Michael Davis, MD, pediatrician, discusses celiac disease and gluten sensitivity in children.
Anyone Have a Child With Celiac? or Failure to Thrive?!?
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Question by Bella: Anyone have a child with Celiac? Or Failure to Thrive?!?
We are getting my child tested for celiac. She is 15 months and has these symptoms: Severe constipation (that leads to abdominal pain), Failure to Thrive (she hasn’t gained weight in months and now is losing it!) and now just started having diarrhea. She is still nursed and always had a decent appetite for table foods… but now she hardley eats at all! (Literally a couple bites a day!)
This has been going on for 7 months with out many answers though tests have been done. Before all of this started she also had terrible yeast infections/diaper rash that came and went for 2 months!
Does this sound like what your child went through? Any other things that it could be?
**We have tried so many things for the constipation nothing helps. Literally we have tried every over the counter/prescription and herbal**
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Answer by Amie G
Welcome to my life! The last 4 years. My son has had about 20 surgeries and many other procedures. He just got out of the hospital again last week with yet another bowel obstruction.
Celiac would be the 1st thing they should start out with. The testing is the easiest. If she doesn’t have celiac then your in for a whole other ball game. My son has a very uncommon disease called neuronal intestinal dysplasia. It took them 3 and 1/2 years to figure this out. I hate it when people say of give laxitives and prune juice or pear juice for the constipation…this is an entirely different kind of constipation that doesn’t respond to everyday treatments. Have the admit your daughter to the hospital for a “clean out” yet? It really is hard to watch but sometimes if your just dealing with some very stubborn constipation it will help. It also sounds to me that your daughter might have candida over growth. Have you tried probiotics?
I was going to e-mail you to get more information on what tests they have done and what they haven’t..I know more then I like to about this..please e-mail me through my profile. Maybe I will be able to help you a little more. If you don’t, I wish you the best of luck and many answers.
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Could My Daughter Have Celiac Disease?
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My nine month old daughter spit up severely after every meal for the first few months of her life. I did not give her the medicine that was prescribed, because she was a “happy” spitter. Around four months ago, she stopped spitting up for the most part. She’s always been a very happy baby despite the fact that she doesn’t sleep half as much as I am used to in young babies. Lately, though, she has become fussy, clingy, and seemingly always sleepy and hungry. Then, suddenly, about a week ago, she began to spit up after every solid-foods meal. She’ll be eating just fine, then suddenly start to gag and choke, and this mucousy vomit comes up along with the food. She gets very fussy, and refuses to finish her meal. I at first thought she was teething, explaining the fussiness and fatigue, and just gagging up excess mucous from allergies or a cold, but I’m starting to second guess myself. I realized yesterday that she does fine with fruit or veggies, but as soon as she eats the crackers, bread, or anything grain-based, she gags and it comes back up. Today I took her measurements, and was shocked to see that she’s lost three pounds since I weighed her last month. I had realized she was slimming up, but attributed it to her becoming more mobile, and thought she must be growing taller faster than she was growing out! If my measurements taken today are correct, then she has not gained any in height since last month. I’m taking her to the doctor tomorrow, but was just wondering what those who have celiac or have children with celiac think. Could this be what she has?
I have a doctor appointment for tomorrow, but I’m very impatient and wanted some input from the yahooligans out there. 
Also: She is exclusively breastfed (as in no formula; she does take solids.) She does not spit up after nursing, nor does she after drinking a few sips of water. Would the gluten affect her through breast milk if she had a gluten allergy?
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Answer by formerly_bob
Its quite possible that she has Celiac disease – this is exactly how it often presents itself in infants. It would be easy to try a gluten-free rice cereal to see if she has the same reaction. Some of the Beechnut baby foods are gluten-free.
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Looking for a Good Endocrinologist for the Treatment of Celiac Diseases in Barcelona?
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Question by Julia M: looking for a good endocrinologist for the treatment of celiac diseases in barcelona?
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Answer by SkyRaider
Sorry I don’t know any. I recommend you go to a newspaper’s website (from Barcelona) and scan the archives for the word “Celiaquía” or “celiaca”, and you’ll get doctor’s names from articles. This may indicate who is an expert.
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If Teacher Has Celiac Disease, Whose Responsibility Is It for Exposure to Gluten?
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Question by proud granny: If teacher has celiac disease, whose responsibility is it for exposure to gluten?
On the first day of school I received a letter from my child’s teacher asking us to restrict snack items from her classroom because she cannot be exposed to gluten. She said because of the hands on nature in the classroom and to avoid cross-contamination through touching pencils, papers etc., that this restriction is in effect. Isn’t this a lot to be put into our hands because wouldn’t the school lunches make a difference too? I don’t want to be responsible for this teacher getting sick because my child may have eaten something with gluten outside of the classroom.
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Answer by NoAmnesty4U
Unless the teacher licks crumbs off pencils, she would not be exposed to risk. Gluten-free diets help most celiac patients, but not all. Ingested gluten is the problem, not peripheral exposure to gluten. Assuming she does not eat the children’s snacks and follows adequate hygiene and washes her hands before meals, the teacher is safe. She could be just wishing her students not have snacks in the classroom.
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Has Anyone’s Child Had a False Negative(blood Work) for Celiac Disease?
Posted by: | CommentsQuestion by juneejunebug: Has anyone’s child had a false negative(blood work) for celiac disease?
My son has all of the symptoms. The doctor office told me that the labs “seem” fine, but that was just the receptionist. I am just curious what other people’s experience has been
sorry it was a quick ask and run deal. 
My son is 3 years old(4 in Sept) and has been having problems for quite awhile now. He is 29lbs. We have been referred to a GI doctor so I am praying that he will be able to help out. thanks for the help!
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Answer by sailor
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