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New York Times Article About Sj


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An Autoimmune Disorder, in Camouflage

By JANE E. BRODY, October 7, 2008, New York Times

How can a disease that afflicts some three million Americans, 90 percent of them women, be as obscure as Sj

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Interesting article.

When I researched this syndrome, I found numerous mentions that wheat was suspected to be the trigger for the autoimmune response and that eliminating wheat from the diet decreased the symptoms (depending on whether or not permanent damage had been done from years of misdiagnosis.)

I find the mention of the wheat connection curiously absent in the article - but there is mention of pharmaceuticals as part of the treatment.

I suspect that I have Shogren's, although according to this article, a very mild case. A few months after going gluten-free my dry skin was not so dry (I have saved lots of money by not going through so many bottles of lotion) and my eyes tear more and are not so dry. Also, I no longer get nosebleeds during the winter when the heater dries out the air.

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