Re: Celiac-Help me, I'm confused!

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This is really ironic, but a friend of a friend just found out he is

celiac and he is in his 50s. I didn't know you could " become celiac " .

I thought you were born with it. So, I guess this may have happened

to him-an ignored allergy developed into celiacism, or

whatever....(-: She did say he has always complained of stomach

problems and finally went to get it checked out.

Janelle

[Guest guest]

Ok-I will try-if I get this wrong someone correct me. As I see it-he is

already producing antibodies against wheat. Repeated exposure could cause

more severe reactions over time. In celiac the body attacks the intestine

and destroys the villi because it recognizes it as gluten-somthing the body

developed antibodies to probably early in life . That would be how my mind

reasons it out.f

Celiac-Help me, I'm confused!

> Hi! I just talked to our DAN allergist about the

> results of the blood Celiac test that he ran on

> . He said that he tested negative for Celiac,

> but was positive for gliadin antibodies. He said that

> if I feed him wheat, he will develop Celiac over the

> next ten years. Here's where I'm confused. I didn't

> realize that anyone who is allergic to wheat could

> develop Celiac if they ignore their wheat allergy.

> Anyone else ever been told this by a physician? Not

> that I would ever dream of giving him wheat in the

> anywhere near future, but this is something that we

> had hoped that he would eventually grow out of. Any

> explanations would be appreciated.

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[Guest guest]

> -,

> This is really ironic, but a friend of a friend just found out he is

> celiac and he is in his 50s. I didn't know you could " become

celiac " .

> I thought you were born with it.

Some celiacs have very mild symptoms, the gluten does not affect them

severely, but it does build over time. So later in life it will

" appear " that they are celiac, when they were all the time, but the

villi destruction was a very slow process until one day it just

reached the intolerance level. For me, I discovered I was celiac last

summer, when I tried the enzymes that work so well for my kids, and I

had a major nasty withdrawal reaction, followed by celiac symptoms. I

required a trigger [the enzymes] to allow my body to indicate the slow

destruction. It is similar to when you remove gluten/casein from your

kids, then other food issues which are masked then become apparent.

You can get more information on this issue here

http://www.celiac.com/index.html

Dana