My DD is due to be tested for this and I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the early symptoms were.
DD is 6, she had loose stools around 4 months ago which we put down to a virus and kept her off school. Since then she has had loose stools around 15 times and missed a lot of school as each time we’ve had to assume it’s infectious. The frequency of these bouts is becoming closer together and the consistency of her stools are becoming looser so whatever is going on is worsening. She’s never had vomiting alongside but she does complain of a sore belly.
We took her to the GP a few weeks ago as this was reoccurring, she had a stool sample tested which found nothing untoward. We’ve been keeping a food diary and there is no obvious triggers for these episodes. Inbeween the episodes her bowels are normal.
We’ve seen the GP today and he suggests testing for coeliac disease. Googling the symptoms it lists weight loss, failure to grow etc. as symptoms but she’s tall for her age and a good weight. It’s also not constant and she eats gluten more days than not so if this was the case wouldn’t she have loose stools every day?
I don’t want to put her through invasive tests and bloods etc. which will terrify her if there is another simple explanation and I wonder if testing her for coeliac disease is a little extreme.
Those of you who have children with this can you tell me what the early symptoms were? We’re they mild / severe etc. Over what period of time?