Joanne,

The tests you mentioned might rule out celiac, but might not rule out gluten
intolerance of the opiate excess variety.  That is done by a urine test that
looks for certain semi-digested fractions of gluten on a chromatogram.  At
this point, that test is only available at research labs, but an elimination
diet of gluten might be worth a try--it's not that hard!  Has she had
allergy testing?

Susan

PS.  By the way, listmates, I've been gluten and casein free for twenty
months, and I still get the occasional mouth ulcer.

At 10:50 AM 3/21/97 EDT, you wrote:
>
>Jamie has had 2 endoscopies (Sept. & Oct.) --both with biopsies of the
>esophagus, stomach, and duodenum. At that time she had a totally
>unrestricted diet. The doctors were searching for the cause of her
>severe stomach pain and nausea. The duodenum biopsies were both normal.
>Our pediatric gastroenterologist told us she does not have a
>malabsorption problem because there has been no weight loss and she has
>not experienced any diarrhea. Am I correct in assuming that celiac and a
>gluten sensitivity are ruled out by the results of those biopsies?
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