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DD has excessive wind-- Ceoliac disease??

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peppajay · 24/12/2013 08:37

My DD is 7 and for the last 4-5 weeks she has been suffering from excessive wind and often passes mucus with it. By excessive I mean she has to go to the toilet about every half an hour and pass wind then wipe away the mucus. She has no other symptoms and her stools are fine. I have taken her to the GP and she needs to do a stool sample which she has done and has gone for analysis. She is fine in herself appetite as normal no stomach aches or weight loss just this excessive wind. I have coeliac disease and is wondering if it could be this, but Dr says no as there is no other symptoms as he says there would be diahorrea or weight loss but mine was diagnosed from a sore throat!!! If the stool sample comes back negative I think I am going to ask if he can do a blood test just to rule it out. Anyone else on here have a child or has coeliac disease or have a child who has suffered from this??

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Charmingbaker · 24/12/2013 09:47

I have 2DC with coeliac disease, DC2 had classic symptoms, DC1s only symptom before being tested was extreme tiredness ( no tummy troubles at all, we only tested him because DS2 had just been diagnosed, we put the tiredness down to him being a lazy teenager).
So it is possible to be coeliac without obvious symtoms, with DC2 he didn't get any tummy aches until just before his endoscopy, so I think we caught it quite early.
I would advise pushing for answers, something is not quite right.
Don't rule out a problem with dairy either, my DS2 struggles with dairy when he's run down, and can get mucusy poo. Though not nearly as frequently as your DD.
Hope you get to the bottom of it.

cestlavielife · 24/12/2013 14:18

if you coeliac then she needs to be tested with blood test

craftysewer · 26/12/2013 23:49

My dd was diagnosed coeliac 6 months ago at the age of 18. She had no symptoms and had gone to her GP with something completely different. We were advised as a family to be tested as immediate family have a good chance of having the disease themselves. Can you go back to your GP and insist on a blood test or maybe see another GP in your practise?

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