Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Celiac?

Today Robbie went to the Dr to see if we could get him tested for celiac disease, a gluten allergy. In doing more research on benign congenital hypotonia I came across several people who had linked the two in their children. When they put their kids on a gluten free diet the hypotonia improved. The results varied from family to family from it being practically gone to mild improvement. This was not a controlled study but stories from individual families that I happened across. Since there are several people with celiac in my family tree I figured we had better get him tested! The Dr also ordered an allergy profile to be run for other food and environmental allergies. They had to take a few vials but he was a trooper and did really well. Only a little bit of crying and hysteria when he was poked. We hope to have the results by the end of the week but we all know how that can go! The Dr did warn us that the test will only show an allergy to it, not a sensitivity or intolerance. She suggested that even if the results come back negative that we do a 6 month trial anyway just to see. Please cover this in prayer. I will let you know the results when we find out.

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