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2. Schedule Follow-Up Care

If you need help adjusting to a gluten-free diet, you can enlist the expertise of a dietitian. He or she can help you learn more about healthy, nutritious meals that are also free of gluten. Besides seeing a dietitian, you will need follow-up care with your family doctor to monitor your body’s response to the gluten-free diet. You may have to take blood tests for several months to evaluate the presence of gluten in your small intestine. After about six months to a year of following a gluten-free diet, the tests should become negative. However, even with a negative test result, you still can experience signs of celiac disease. If the symptoms continue to occur, then your doctor might want to do complete an endoscopy with a biopsy to ensure proper healing. Routine biopsies are required if healing is slow.

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