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I can't believe that I missed this for so many years!!!  My daughter is 46 years old and has very bad celiac.  She also has Down syndrome so she doesn't always listen to diet recommendations etc..  She still lives with me (mom) and we are VERY careful with her diet.  But over the years she has had quite frequent occurences of skin and bowel issues due to celiac.  We also have cats and I have always used a wheat based kitty litter called Swheat Scoop.  I feel so stupid that it never occured to me that this might be causing part of the problem!!  Recently My daughter fell and broke 2 bones in her pelvis and so had to be in a hospital bed in the family room for a while.  Her cat often slept with her and she started having ongoing celiac issues.  When I went to change her sheets I found litter that the cat had apparently tracked into her bed on her sheets!!  For the first time it occured to me that the kitty litter might be part of the problem!!!  I got rid of it and cleaned the house deeply severly times.  After about 2 weeks she stopped having any (ANY) issues with celiac!!   Again,  I hope I'm the only  one on earth who is dumb enough to have not thought of this before now but just in case anyone else is using this kind of kitty litter I wanted to post that it seems to have solved our issues to switch to paper based litter. The cat kind of hates it so far but he will get used to it!  If anyone else has made this mistake it would be comforting to know that I'm not the only one.

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@Deb67, welcome!

You're not the only one!  

I tried Swheat Scoop many, many years ago.  It made me terribly sick, too!  It was just another clue on my journey to Celiac diagnosis.  

You're in good company!

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29 minutes ago, knitty kitty said:

@Deb67, welcome!

You're not the only one!  

I tried Swheat Scoop many, many years ago.  It made me terribly sick, too!  It was just another clue on my journey to Celiac diagnosis.  

You're in good company!

Thank you for letting me know!! 

 

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These two articles might be helpful:

 

 

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