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 First off, yes - I  did mean Villi

 

* The general consensus was that it can grow back multiple times - it
depends on how much damage was done in the first place, how long and how
much gluten was eaten, how healthy you are, and your age.  There is a risk
of it not growing back, or of scaring taking place

 

Here is more info...

 

If you do have difficulty regrowing it's called refractory sprue, or
refractory celiac disease

 

It takes a diet adhering Celiac 2 years to get 90% recovery, at best.  We
don't seem to get 100% recovery, just absence of symptoms.

 

You CAN regrow the cilia by taking take one  l-glutamine capsule and one
probitoics complex capsule with each meal.  The probtiotics heals the villi
and the glutamine acts as a catylist.  With just a gf diet, it takes approx
5 years to heal the villi and cilia but with the formula just five months. 
You feel better within a week and the villi usually goes within the 5 month
period, thus indicating that you are healed.  I got this formula from my
nutritionist who teaches on the graduate level

 

If you have not read Dr. Fine's essay, please do . http://www.enterolab
com/Essay/

  

Gluten sensitivity and 'normal' histology: is the intestinal mucosa really
normal?



Sbarbati A, Valletta E, Bertini M, Cipolli M, Morroni M, Pinelli L, Tato L.



Section of Anatomy and Histology, Department of Morphological and Biomedical
Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. [log in to unmask]



BACKGROUND: Early pathogenetic events of gluten intolerance may be
overlooked in patients with serologic markers of celiac disease and normal
intestinal mucosa by both conventional histology and immunohistochemistry.
AIMS: To investigate if a submicroscopical damage of the absorptive cell
surface was associated with developing gluten sensitivity. PATIENTS AND
METHODS: Duodenal biopsies of seven subjects with positive anti-endomysial
antibodies and normal histology underwent ultrastructural evaluation of the
epithelial surface by means of both scanning and transmission electron
microscopy. Specimens of intestinal mucosa 

 

Here are two articles that mention incomplete recovery:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query
fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=3170777

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query
fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12219789

 

As to the 'challenge test'... as one person said, "I can't think of another
disease where the doctor purposefully causes damage in order to diagnosis." 


 

I know that there are many countries on here - I will let you know that my
Dr said that the blood test is enough for a diagnosis.  He said it is a
change in the past year that they don't have to do a biopsy anymore.  

 

 

Hope this was a helpful summary!   Julie :)

 

God Bless the Little Ones

 Julie Nolan  BA, BSN, RN - Canada  [log in to unmask]

 

 

 

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