I think it can present in different ways as well.
You can not have it for most or all of you life, but carry the gene. Then a illness or trauma or something triggers the gene. Or you can have it mildly for most of your life and just generally feel like crap and think thats just how people feel only to discover you were celiac.
More and more doctors are now checking the box on a standard blood work requisition to test for celiac though.
My kids have anaphylactic allergies as well as my oldest having celiac. It's kind of hard to wrap you head around the exposure aspect of it.
Celiac is not a life threatening disease, but the parts per million required to cause a reaction are extremely low, so it is not recommended to eat thing with "May Contain" statements. However food allergies are life threatening but the PPM required to trigger those reactions is a bit higher so "May contain" are generally fine for food allergies.
It kinda warps my brain when we're making food for the kids.
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