I’m being tested. I’ve got the symptoms and it’s in my family 
so, all i know is it’s an autoimmune disease where your immune systom atacks your intestines. Anything else I should know, just incase?
Posted on December 17th, 2009 by Bob
Filed under: Celiac Disease in Children
Blood tests DO NOT ACCURATELY DIAGNOSE Celiac Disease.
Doctors who ask for the test to be done are simply wasting your time.
ONLY A BIOPSY OF YOUR INTESTINAL LINING done by a Gastro-enterologist during a gastroscopy can confirm that you have Celiac Disease.
Before you have the gastroscopy, the Gastro-enterologist will ask that you INCLUDE gluten in your diet for at least 6 weeks prior to your gastroscopy so that the biopsy will give an ACCURATE result if indeed YOU are a Celiac.
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You can’t eat gluten which is in bread and many other products.
it is an autoimmune gluten enteropathy that mean you lack enzymes that digest gluten protein present in the wheat and some other cereals exept rice which you can eat as substitute
http://www.celiac.org/
lots of info
If your blood test is positive, then the next step is an
endoscopy. The doctor will insert an endoscope down
your throat and into the small intestine. (You will be
sedated.)
They will take about 6-8 tiny biopsy samples to see
if your intestinal villi are damaged. If the biopsy shows
damage, then they will diagnose you with celiac disease.
You will be put on a gluten free diet, which means you
have to avoid all wheat, barley, rye and probably oats.
Gluten free breads and cereal will be acceptable. This
will be a permanent lifestyle.
It’s a big adjustment, but if you do have celiac disease,
you will feel so much better on the gluten free diet!!
Here is some information on the procedure written by a
gastroenterologist:
http://ezinearticles.com/?What-is-Upper-Endoscopy-and-Why-Is-Small-Intestine-Biopsy-Recommended-for-Celiac-Disease?&id=316650