Conventional allergic response to wheat/milk?

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Hi All,

Please forgive me if this information has been posted here before. I

do not always read everything here.

I came across the study pasted below yesterday, even though it was

published a year ago. The authors seem to be concentrating on the

IgG and IgA antibodies to gluten and casein. I believe that these are

indications of " conventional " allergies to these proteins and not

necessarily of the opioid theory.

Have any of you had your kids tested for a conventional allergic

response to gluten or casein?

This seems to me to be a very significant study! 90% of autistic

kids having a conventional allergy to cow's milk seems at least as

important as the recent Pfeiffer Treatment Center results on

Copper/Zinc imbalances:

http://www.hriptc.org/MetalMetabolism_and_Autism.htm

Autism and Schizophrenia: Intestinal Disorders

Nutritional Neuroscience, An International

Journal on Nutrition, Diet and Nervous System,

June 2000, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 1-16(16)

Cade R.; Privette M.; Fregly M.; Rowland N.;

Sun

Z.; Zele V.; Wagemaker H.; Edelstein C.

Departments of Medicine, Physiology, Psychology

and Psychiatry, University of Florida,

Gainesville, FL 32610-0204, USA

Abstract:

We examined Dohan's hypothesis that

schizophrenia is associated with the absorption of

" exorphins " contained in gluten and

casein. In

addition, because of the work of Reichelt et al.

(Reichelt, K.L., Saelid, G., Lindback, J. and

Orbeck, H. (1986) Biological Psychiatry 21:

1279–1290) and et al. (,

Trav, A.L., Barreiro Marin, P., Galvez, Borrero,

I.M., del Olmo Romero-Nieva, F. and

Alvarez, A. (1994) Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease Aug; 182(8): 478–479), we carried

out

similar studies on a group of children with

autism. In both syndromes we found similar

patterns of peptide containing peaks (Ninhydrin

positive) after molecular screening with

Sephadex G-15.

Immunoglobulin assay of IgA and IgG against

gliadin and casein in serum was done. High titer

IgG antibodies to gliadin were found in 87% of

autistic and 86% of schizophrenic patients and

high titer IgG antibodies to bovine casein were

found in 90% of autistic and in 93% of

schizophrenic patients. High titer IgA

antibodies to gluten or casein were found in 30% of

children with autism while in schizophrenic

patients 86% had elevated IgA antibodies to gluten

and 67% to casein; some normal children and

adults have these antibodies but only in trace

amounts. When schizophrenic patients were

treated with dialysis or a gluten–casein free diet, or

both (Cade, R., Wagemaker, H., Privette, R.M.,

Fregly, M., , J. and Orlando, J. (1990)

Psychiatry: A World Prespective 1: 494–500)

peptiduria and Brief Psychiatric Rating Scores fell

while abnormal behavior diminished. A

gluten–casein free diet was accompanied by

improvement in 81% of autistic children within 3

months in most of the behavior categories. Our

data provide support for the proposal that many

patients with schizophrenia or autism suffer

due to absorption of exorphins formed in the

intestine from incomplete digestion of gluten and casein.

Keywords: Gluten; Casein; Schizophrenia;

Autism;

Gliadorphin; -Casomorphin; Diet

Language: EN Document Type: SA

Publisher: Gordon and Breach Publishing Group