my friend thinks i have celiacs disease how can i tell if shes right?
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Go to the doctor and allow him to run the test. Don't go by what someone else believes. That why we have doctors...
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She digested something she is allergic to. To be on the safe side, bring her to see the family doctor or to a near by walk in clinic, to check it out, if it reoccurs.\nGod bless us all...
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I think you should go talk to a your guidance counsaler about  this....tell them exactly what you just said in this question....tell them how you feel and try confronting your friend and find out what she thinks.....but make sure you tell whomever really quickly it might be serious....just say i have this friend who seems like shes not eating well has had excesive weight loss and etc....dotn be scared your doing the right thing.
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Irritable Bowel, psychiatric causes, food and or drug allergies are other potential causes.  Any new stresses in the last six months?  Dietary or lifestyle changes?  \n\nTry to think of anything that may have coincided with or be related to the onset of your symptoms.  Think of what brings on the symptoms, prolongs them or shortens them, makes them more or less intense, affects them in any way.\n\nOften, it is hard to think of anything that is related, especialy after so many tests, but it is a way to find answers.  Consider keeping a diary of your symptoms and observations to help find associations with diet, activity, daily stressors, etc.\n\nShare your fidnings with your doctor(s) see if they spark any thoughts about possible causes.  Best wishes - I hope your symptoms resolve soon.  Take some solace in the fact that alot of really bad things have been eliminated as possible causes.
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Hi Duttie.  I have had Celiac Disease (CD) my entire life (I am 52 years old).  Sadly, it was not properly diagnosed until last year (had to figure it out myself).\n\nCeliac Disease is an autoimmune disease that damages the lining of the small intestine.  This is the part of the gut where most of your digestion and absorption of nutrients occurs.\n\nCD is caused by an allergic reaction to certain proteins in grains (wheat, rye and barley) called glutens/gliadins.  The only treatment is total avoidance of these foods in the diet.\n\nCD can cause a wide variety of symptoms.  The disease is now known to occur in about 1 person in 100, but here in the U.S. only about 3% of people with the disease get properly diagnosed (me, for example).  The classic symptoms include diarrhea and weight loss, but these are actually not the most common symptoms.  Unexplained fatigue is the most common symptom.  Many patients are actually over weight. Many patients with CD get the 'label' of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).  Any time a doctor says this to a patient and the doctor has not ruled out CD by proper testing, then it is my professional opinion that the doctor is incompetent.\n\nLiver problems, other allergies, skin problems, brain dysfunction, kidney stones, virtually any organ system can be affected by this disease.\n\nAs a child I had a lot of problems with allergies, chronic ear infections, bladder problems and eventually bowel problems/diarrhea.  The medical docs 'blamed me' for these problems.  As an adult, I got the useless label of IBS.  Note: IBS is not a diagnosis (it does not tell you what is wrong) - it is a LABEL for unexplained bowel problems.\n\nHope this is helpful to you and your children.  CD does tend to run in the family.  Researchers recommend testing for close relatives if someone in the family is diagnosed with this disease.\n\nBest wishes and good luck!
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u're a really cool friend to be looking out for her! are u sure she hasn't got an eating disorder...obviously not anorexia, but maybe bullemia?? it's just an idea, so don't go accussing her of anything! she might just have a really fast metabolism, but dizziness and tiredness don't sound right for that! i dunno, maybe u can just ask her if she wants 2 talk about it or sumting...u're obviously a spesh friend to her!!!
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Get yourself checked out for celiac disease if you haven't already.  It is treatable, and has many of the symptoms of IBS.  Best wishes.
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Have you been tested for Celiac Disease?  Medical studies indicate that anywhere from 10% to 60% of patient's given the IBS label actually have undiagnosed Celiac Disease.\n\nCeliac Disease (CD) occurs in about 1 person in 100, yet in the U.S. it is only diagnosed in about 1 person in 3500, which means 97% of people with the disease go undiagnosed!\n\nCD is an allergic reaction to certain proteins in wheat, rye and barley called gluten/gliadins.  The allergic reaction causes an autoimmune disease that damages the lining of the small intestine.  Pain, diarrhea, and even vomiting are common.  It can usually be diagnosed with simple blood tests, although occassionally special tests of a stool sample are needed to make the diagnosis.\n\nThere is a good chance your physicians are not very knowledgeable about this common condition.  You can find an excellent series of medical review articles on this subject in the April 2005 supplement of the medical journal "Gastroenterology".  You might want to check out these papers on their website and even download some for your doctor to read.  Again, physicians tend to be uneducated on Celiac Disease.  Many leading medical journals in the last 2 years have written large review papers on this disease in an effort to educate the medical profession.  Sadly, physicians often lack the time (or interest) to read their own journals.\n\nTreatment is simple and straight forward.  Treatment consists of total avoidance of all sources of glutens/gliadins in the diet for life.  The necessary nutritional modifications are well worth the improvement in health and wellbeing.\n\nI have this disease.  After 40 years of suffering, seeing many 'specialists' and carrying the useless 'diagnosis' of IBS, I figured it out for myself, had the testing done and now avoid all gluten in my diet.\n\nBest wishes and good luck.
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You really need to avoid gluten! if you eat gluten with celiac disease you can have diarrhea, and the\nit will irritate the microvili in your small intestine leading to mal-absorption and wt loss. \n\nthis can really help...\nhttp://www.celiac.com/index.html\n\nI work in a hospital as a Dietetic Technician...hope this helped.
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Ask your closest friend to check for you.\nThey should tell you the truth.
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I had something simular and it took 4 blood tests to determine that I had Mono.   You could also check if you have celiac disease or maybe you have atypical depression
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Take her to the dermatologist to get an allergy screening done. It could be anything from pet dander to cottonwood to dead bugs.
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Food allergies are tested by a back scratch test with little pokes on the back\nGluetten Intolerene is tested with blood tests and possibly a colonascopy to rule out celiac
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Always see it with your own eyes. Just because she's a friend doesn't mean you should blindly believe everything she says. She has to earn your trust like everyone else.
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Talk to the doctor that ordered the tests.\n\nYou can't be absolutely certain that a person online is really what they say they are.
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Have you been tested for Celiac Disease?  Studies show that as many as 60% of people labeled with IBS (I say labeled because IBS is not a diagnosis, that is, it does not define the source/cause of the symptoms) actually have Celiac Disease.\n\nCeliac disease is an autoimmune disease that damages the lining of the small intestine.  It is caused by an allergy to certain proteins in wheat, rye and barley called glutens/gliadins.\n\nDoctors in the U.S. are so 'unknowledgeable' that they only diagnose this disorder in 3% of the patients with the disease.  It is a common disease, occurring in about 1 person in 100, but is only diagnosed at a rate of 1 in 3500 in the U.S.\n\nAnother possibility is food allergies/intolerances which are common causes of IBS-labeled symptoms.  The gold-standard for diagnosing food allergies is an elimination diet.  You may need to find a nutritional food allergy specialist to help you evaluate this possibility.\n\nBest wishes and good luck.
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your friend may have a vaginal infection which can only be diagnosed by a physician.  If there is only itching and discharge, it may only be a yeast infection which is not very hard to cure, but I am not saying this what your friend has.  Your friend may also be allergic to whatever she is using to clean herself with, but you never know, so tell your friend to get herself to a doctor so she can be tested and treated.