Guest guest Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 > Maikko-- An endoscopy will show if the villi in your small intestine have been damaged due to gluten intolerance. It won't show if you're gluten sensitive. Because your blood work showed gluten intolerance, in your position I would adopt a strict gluten-free diet. Your GI is likely to only recommend a gf diet if you have a positive endoscopy. Here's a link to an essay that talks about how it can really help to pinpoint gluten sensitivities before villi are damaged or destroyed: http://www.enterolab.com/Essay/ If you go to pubmed (the best source I know of for medical research), you'll find abstracts (ie summaries) of almost every article published in mainstream medical journals: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi Mainstream medicine is beginning to realize that gluten intolerance affects systems throughout the body; not just the GI tract. This will come up in a search of " gluten " on PubMed. There is a great online community/support group/source of info on testing, celiac diesase, gluten sensitivities, and other allergy issues at: http://www.celiac.com/index.html Good luck! Tree > also lactose intolerant and semi-wheat intolerant (i tested positive > for gluten intolerance in my blood work, but not in my endoscopy, and > i feel ok eating wheat, but much better not doing so). > > maikko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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