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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The gold standard to see how well a body is handling gluten or casein is the elimination diet. Months is better, but I'd say at least 6 weeks. And it needs to be 100%.[/quote]

Not for celiac disease.

Also you need to identify what you're focused on.  If it's chronic constipation, it's probably a combo of factors chiefly not enough fiber, water, or exercise and perhaps too much dairy.

If you're looking to see if it will improve behavior then 6 weeks would probably be a good test window.  There's no clinical evidence that it helps with this.[/quote]

Yes, even for celiac disease. Blood tests and poop tests aren't a reliable indicator one way or the other, and even a biopsy can be inconclusive. The only way to tell is to do a strict elimination diet for 6+ weeks (ideally a few months), see how you feel, and then try eating pasta and see how you feel.

In my case, the effect was sudden - after an hour I was on the floor screaming with pain so bad that I almost went to the ER. Never experienced anything like it before that. After going off gluten, there were tons of positive effects for me including being able to have children when previously I had miscarriages that my doctors couldn't explain with all their testing. But I never had blood in my poop or anything like that.[/quote]

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