Does It Affect All

[little d]

Ok I hope that I don't open a can of worms here.

Ok everything that I have read about celiac disease that is primarly affects Caucains/White primarly of Irish decent more than any other race.

I have a coworker who is African/American that has IBS along with a slu of food allergies that would kill her like Tomatos.

I celiac disease kinda like Sickle Cell where it primarly affects African Americans which is very rare in Caucaison/White but it can happen.

Just asking, just wanting to know what your thoughts on this is

If i am opening up a can of worms I hope that they are Gluten Free

Donna

[darlindeb25]

Nope, it's not. They say Irish decent, but I honestly wonder if that is only because they were quicker at identifing it. To my knowldege, celiac disease does not pick and choose who it takes as a victim. My celiac group put on the biggest vendor fair in North America and celiacs from all over the area and even other states came. Believe me, from the people I met, I really think Celiac Disease doesn't care who you are or where you came from.

Go ahead, make a suggestion to your co-worker.

[aikiducky]

Add to that, it's not that unlikely for your coworker to have some caucasian genes... even if they might be from a couple generations back.

Pauliina

[little d]

Nope, it's not. They say Irish decent, but I honestly wonder if that is only because they were quicker at identifing it. To my knowldege, celiac disease does not pick and choose who it takes as a victim. My celiac group put on the biggest vendor fair in North America and celiacs from all over the area and even other states came. Believe me, from the people I met, I really think Celiac Disease doesn't care who you are or where you came from.

Go ahead, make a suggestion to your co-worker.

I did mention it to her but she is totally convinced that she has IBS only because the medicine that her docs have her on she says works just fine.

and

Donna

[tarnalberry]

definitely not the same. celiac has been found at a higher incidence in some populations than others, but we're not talking 1:10,000 in one, and 1:100 in another. It always seems to vary between ~1:100 and 1:500, right around the same order of magnitude.

[kbtoyssni]

Wheat and barely were first domesticated in the Fertile Cresent (Mesopotamia region). People from this area will have a lower chance of getting celiac because their genetics have had longer to adapt to eating gluten. It's only a few thousand years headstart on the rest of the world, though, so the percent of the population affected isn't going to be that much lower for those in the Turkey/Iraq/Saudi Arabia region.