These tests look for your body's reaction to gluten, the protein found in wheat, barley and rye that causes celiac disease. The blood tests aren't perfect. If your celiac blood tests are negative, it means you're much less likely to have celiac disease ... but there's still a small chance that you have it.
Autoimmune hepatitis is a disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the liver. The best way to describe this disease is to break the term down into its composite words.
What Causes Autoimmune Disease? No one is really sure what exactly is responsible for causing autoimmune disease. However, doctors have several theories of what may be causing them, such as a virus or bacteria that confuses the immune system and makes it think that healthy tissue is actually an antigen, which in turn causes the immune system to attack perfectly healthy tissue.