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going to be tested for gluten intolerace, will not eating it affect my results?
I am going to see a doctor soon about stomach pains. After doing research, I think I may have an gluten intolerance. I've started cutting it out to see if it helps, but will this make any test results different? They test for certain antibodies in the blood, and will possibly test some stools to determine malabsorption levels (Steatorrhea).
But if I haven't been eating gluten, will these tests be different than if I had been consuming gluten? I don't want to mess up my results. Should I continue to not eat gluten to see if that helps, or should I eat it and rely on the tests?
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- ★☆✿❀Lv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
Yes, if you eat gluten free and you have Celiac Disease your body will no longer produce the antibodies or the damage to the villi seen in Celiac Disease. So your tests will be negative even if you have it.
You need to eat gluten for at least 6 weeks before for blood tests. If you've only been gluten free for 2-3 days, it won't take 6 weeks for the antibodies/damage to return, but I'd want to give it 2 weeks.
Eat gluten, have the tests. Your problem may not be with gluten at all.
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Source(s): I have Celiac Disease.