Re: Gluten-free (or SCD!) Infants

July 28, 2009

i did the same milk and then veges first to get their buds loving veges and not

just sweetness of fruits -( i lived off sweets and was/am on a mission to not

let them be like me) didn't know about delaying grains at the time, but did

delay food much longer than most - no need for them

eileen 18 months scd

>

> My SCD niece sent me this, as an explanation of

> why she kept her two sons on breast milk, and

> made their first solid food organic fruits and

> vegetables, against the advice of her

> pediatrician, who, of course, wanted her to introduce GRAINS first.

>

> This is a excerpt from the August 2009,

> Scientific American article on " Celiac Disease

> Insights " (recent developments in the

> understanding of the cause and potential

> treatment of Celiac Disease and other autoimmune

> diseases). It was written by Alessio Fasano, a

> professor of pediatrics, medicine and physiology

> and director of the Mucosal Biology Research

> Center and the Center for Celiac Research at the

> University of land School of Medicine.

>

> Under the leadership of Carlo Catassi, my team at

> the University of land has begun a long-term

> clinical study to test whether having infants at

> high risk eat nothing containing gluten until

> after their first year can delay the onset of CD

> or, better yet, prevent it entirely. " High risk, "

> in this case, means infants possess

> susceptibility genes and their immediate family has a history of the disorder.

>

> We suspect the approach could work because the

> immune system matures dramatically in the first

> 12 months of life and because research on

> susceptible infants has implied that avoiding

> gluten during the first year of life might

> essentially train that developing immune system

> to tolerate gluten thereafter, as healthy people

> do, rather than being overstimulated by it. So

> far we have enrolled more than 700 potentially

> genetically susceptible infants in this study,

> and preliminary findings suggest that delaying

> gluten exposure reduces by fourfold the likelihood that CD will develop.

>

> — Marilyn

> New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

> Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

> Darn Good SCD Cook

> No Human Children

> Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

>

July 28, 2009