Could a negative celiac panel actually mean celiac?

[Zizzle]

I was reading a blog you all recommended:http://mednauseum.blogspot.com/search/l ... ntolerance.
It said:
"To get tested for food intolerances, follow these four steps:

Begin with a blood screening for celiac disease at your internist's or gastroenterologist's office. That test is a yes/no for celiac in your MD's mind, however, if any of the scores are higher than zero, count yourself among the gluten intolerant and try a gluten-free diet. If the blood test is totally negative, follow up with a stool test for wheat and dairy from www.enterolab.com.

I had a gluten panel done 5 years ago for a skin rash, back when I only had mild IBS-D. My LC symptoms started last spring. I just found the results. The reference ranges for all were 0-19 (Negative).
These were my results:
Antigliadin Abs IgA= 5
Antigliadin Abs IgG=8
t-Transglutaminase IgA=3
Reticulin IgA and IgG= negative

Are these a sign that things were starting to brew back then? Or do most non-celiac people get low numbers on these tests?

I did test positive through Enterolab this year.

[tex]

Those numbers are mostly meaningless. The blood tests will only detect fully developed celiac disease, and many people have symptoms for years, before the disease develops to the level where the blood tests will detect them. Most blood levels of antibodies are never zero, (unless the patient is totally incapable of producing those respective immunoglobulins).

Only the stool tests at Enterolab are capable of reliably detecting non-celiac gluten-sensitivity.

Tex

[tex]

Okay, I need to make a retraction here - according to doctor Mark Hyman, in his opinion, those numbers do have meaning, and he recommends that anyone in that position should try the GF diet. Please see my post in the following thread for additional information:

http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewt ... 9454#79454

Sorry, my first answer was apparently based on obsolete information.

Tex