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Can celiac disease be mistaken for lactose intolerance?
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Lactose: In milder cases the symptoms are similar but one is agravated by milk products and the other is not.
Answered 9/28/2016
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Yes: Symptoms are very similar so they can be confused.
Answered 7/5/2012
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Depends: Some of the symptoms overlap. Yet if a doc pursues the proper testing they are rather easy to separate.
Answered 11/24/2017
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