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Christine Childs writes:

>Unfortunately you can't grow out of celiac disease.  She might want to
>see a gastroenterologist for another biopsy, since she has been on a
>gluten containing diet for a while.  It could be that she never had it,
>but some other type of disorder.  My grandfather died at 64 from an
>intestinal lymphoma.  When my son was diagnosed with celiac, I told my
>dad - who said "your grandfather had that, but he grew out of it."

My question:

I understood from a gastrointerologist that one should periodically perform a
"gluten challenge" presumably because it is possible to "grow out of it"
being CD.  Does anyone have more info on this?

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