You Want to Put What Where?!? You feel totally fine, you’ve been minding your own business and being a good person. You see your primary doctor for a routine physical, and right as you’re about to leave and celebrate your good health, BAM. You want me to do WHAT?!? Well, happy birthday,…
Understanding Celiac Blood Tests So, to make a diagnosis of celiac disease, you need to have positive blood test results and positive small intestinal biopsies ON a gluten-containing diet. The blood tests can be complicated, so I’ll try to make it simple. As with a lot of things in medicine, the celiac blood…
Have Your Rice and Eat It, Too There’s a lot of confusion out there about what grains are considered to be gluten-free. A question that I commonly get from my patients with celiac disease is, “Can I eat rice?” I want to clear up this confusion by providing you with a list of…
