Celiac Disease

My little sister was the very first one to get celiac, to be diagnosed with celiac disease. Um, and she was about the same height and size as my sister who was three years younger than her. And it was during a time where she should have been growing a lot, like an age of life where she should have been growing a lot, kind of hitting her growth spurt. Um, and she was just tiny, like just height and weight, just like not on par. And so my doctor was genius. Our doctor was a genius and figured there must be something up. And they ran some blood tests and found out that it was due to her celiac. She had the villi in her small intestine. They had been completely flattened because of her disease that had been undiagnosed. And so they couldn't absorb any nutrients from the food that was coming to her body. It was like starving itself. And that's why she was so small. So anyways, she, she grew and spurred right up the second she stopped eating gluen.

My little brother, on the other hand, he actually was just, he was diagnosed with celiac disease probably a week and a half ago, two weeks ago, and he was asymptomatic, no symptoms, like zero issues essentially. The only way that we knew was because it ran in the family and so my mom had all the kids do a blood test every year just to make sure like our numbers weren't rising or anything like that, so they caught it in the blood test. The numbers had like almost doubled within the span of a year and they need him to go off gluten, so if it is something that runs in your family, it'd be good to just get tested annually or biannually just because there are possibilities that it is happening inside of you and there are no symptoms, so.