Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Scramblejams 4004 days ago
No, she reviewed her symptoms (there are some others I didn't mention, they're just not so obviously observable as her knee inflammation) with a doctor and was told they didn't line up with celiac. Just seemed like a mild allergy to gluten, she went off it, problem solved[1].

Even if the doctor was wrong and she has celiac, it's very manageable so there doesn't seem to be much incentive to go to the trouble of a proper test.

[1] Okay, "solved" paints too neat a picture. Eating truly GF can be a pain in the neck, the stuff's absolutely everywhere. But fortunately the GF fad has, like I said, made that a bit easier.