<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> After toughing out the gluten challenge for a month, I finally had my biopsy last Tuesday. Yesterday, I got the result: eosinophilic gastroenteritis. My dr is quite definite that the biopsy findings are quite distinct; I think the results came out of left field for him as much as for me. (I read my chart while I waited for the procedure: while he thought celiac was a possibility, his front-runner suspects were, I gathered, polyps of the colon or pancreatic disease.) He is not interested in doing any blood work for CD at this point, just an eosinophil count and (ugh) a colonoscopy. I still plan to suggest to my daughter that she get screened for CD. For all I know, the EG is on top of CD, or CD may predispose to this condition. He says eosinophilic gastroenteritis is rare and poorly understood. Gee, that sounds familiar. I've tried researching the condition on the net, but have not found out much yet, except that diet cannot cure the disease, just ameliorate the symptoms if offending foods (wheat, milk, all the ones we worry about on the list were mentioned as possible agents) are eliminated. The antibody involved in the body's response is the IgE one, not IgA or IgG. The whole gastrointestinal tract is affected, from the esophagus down, and there is a lot of damage to the lining of the intestines, but with thickening and roughening of the tissues instead of the smoothing of CD. The treatment of "choice" is Prednisone. I am very unhappy about this development, naturally. I'd rather have CD and know that eating properly will repair the situation. At least I know wheat will do a number on me very much like it does on celiacs (the symptoms feel identical), even if the type of tissue damage is different. So I am back on a gluten-free diet. Maybe I should insist on the other blood work, but I've had about all the gluten challenge I can stand. One interesting note: EG is apparently a fairly common problem with ferrets! :-} Thanks again to all the wonderful folks on the list who have helped me with their messages and support. I'm staying on the list, since I need to eat the same way celiac sufferers do. Soon I'll post all the dumpling suggestions I got! Bobbi in Baltimore