Why your Ferritin might be low

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Even those who are not diagnosed with celiac are likely gluten sensitive....hope

this helps...

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Of the various common assayed parameters of iron metabolism, serum ferritin

levels are the most discriminatory in distinguishing between non-treated celiac

disease and other gastrointestinal disorders in the pediatric age group.

Patients on normal diets usually have very low ferritin levels that increase at

an average rate of 1 microgram/1/month when placed on a gluten-free diet. When

the patient returns to a normal diet, however, ferritin levels decrease rapidly

at an average rate of about 4 microgram/1/month. There is a relationship between

abnormal intestinal changes and low ferritin levels in celiac disease with

improvement in both when the patient is on a gluten-free diet. It is suggested

that serial blood ferritin evaluations together with the leukocyte migration

inhibition factor production assay should eliminate the need for invasive

intestinal biopsies for the confirmation and possible follow-up to response to

treatment

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Do you have a citation for this information?

thanks.

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Even those who are not diagnosed with celiac are likely gluten

sensitive....hope this helps...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Of the various common assayed parameters of iron metabolism, serum ferritin

levels are the most discriminatory in distinguishing between non-treated

celiac disease and other gastrointestinal disorders in the pediatric age

group. Patients on normal diets usually have very low ferritin levels that

increase at an average rate of 1 microgram/1/month when placed on a

gluten-free diet. When the patient returns to a normal diet, however,

ferritin levels decrease rapidly at an average rate of about 4

microgram/1/month. There is a relationship between abnormal intestinal

changes and low ferritin levels in celiac disease with improvement in both

when the patient is on a gluten-free diet. It is suggested that serial blood

ferritin evaluations together with the leukocyte migration inhibition factor

production assay should eliminate the need for invasive intestinal biopsies

for the confirmation and possible follow-up to response to treatment