Tissue Transglutaminase Antibody - IgG

Celiac disease, also known as gluten-sensitive enteropathy or celiac sprue, is an autoimmune disorder that causes the body to react poorly to gluten consumption. Gluten is generally found in barley, rye, wheat and many other grains.

When a person with celiac disease consumes any food product containing gluten, it triggers their body, causing it to damage the villi found on the sides of the small intestine walls. When the villi get injured, it leaves your small intestine unable to absorb nutrients from the food you eat properly. Eventually, it can lead to malnourishment, loss of bone density, infertility, miscarriage, certain kinds of cancer and other neurological diseases.

Chances are, you may not even know that you have celiac disease since it grows slowly and takes considerable time to effective damage your intestine. Moreover, symptoms might also be confusing, causing the prognosis to slow.

Celiac disease is not the same as gluten sensitivity or gluten intolerance. Individuals may have gluten sensitivity or intolerance and display similar symptoms, but it does not cause any damage to the small intestine or lead to poor immune system response.

If you suspect that you do have celiac disease, you will observe the following signs and symptoms after eating gluten:

• Anaemia
• Abdominal pain
• Pain in bones and joints
• Loss of bone density
• A feeling of fullness or bloating
• Diarrhoea
• Constipation
• Heartburn
• Gas
• Fatigue or headache
• Dermatitis herpetiformis also understood as an itchy, red, blistery rash on the scalp, knees, buttocks, lower back and elbows
• Nausea
• Mouth ulcers
• Pale-looking, foul-smelling stool
• Hyposplenism, wherein your spleen function reduces
• Unintentional weight loss
• Injury to the nervous system such as balance issues, tingling in your limbs, or confusion and changes in awareness

In young kids, the celiac disease symptoms mostly revolve around intestinal troubles like upset stomach, bloating, diarrhoea, constipation, vomiting, etc. Eventually, celiac disease and its symptoms may cause the following complications:

• Damage to tooth enamel
• Anaemia
• Failure to thrive in young infants
• Delay in puberty
• Stunted growth
• Neurological issues like ADHD and learning disabilities
• Mood changes or crankiness

Reach out to your healthcare practitioner when you observe any of the symptoms or sense trouble after eating gluten. Your doctor is likely to order a tissue transglutaminase IgG antibody test. The test will assess the level of IgG antibodies in your body that occur as a reaction to gluten.

Getting this test will help:

• Monitor the gluten level in your body
• Diagnose if you suffer from a specific autoimmune disease, such as celiac disease
• Evaluate how a gluten-free diet will impact you
• Ascertain the reason behind chronic irritability, stunted growth, anaemia, abdominal pain, weight loss, etc
• Devise an effective treatment plan or keep track of how the pre-existing treatment plan is working out

You can book a tissue transglutaminase IgG antibody test for celiac disease at Apollo 24/7. It’s quick, effortless and offers at-home testing!