Does A Little Bit Of Cc Affect The Healing On Villi?

[Mord]

I don't get sick after eating gluten, however my anxiety levels sky rocket. So a little CC wouldn't do a thing to me as far as feeling ill. How much would a little bit of CC delay the healing of the villi? I Know it depends on certain factors.. but should be I be too concerned about getting an extremely small amount of gluten intake if my main objective is just to restore villi?

[Salax]

I would say that it does affect healing, after all you could never have symptoms but the body still produces an immune response to the gluten...therefore damage occurs..whether you feel that or not. That is celiac disease.

However...Have you been diagnosed with Celiac or are do you just think you are gluten intolerant? If you are intolerant to gluten even though your body can't handle it, I am not sure if the villi get damaged from that. Perhaps others can shed light on this.

[GFinDC]

Well, yes, it is a problem, even a little bit. the FDA guidelines they have been considering are 20 parts per million to label a product gluten free. That's a pretty durn small amount. And the reason they were looking at that level was because it was considered a testable level at an affordable cost for food producers, not because it is safe for celiacs. It is a practical limit that could be workable to test. They used to have a 200 ppm level in Europe, and I am pretty sure they lowered it to 20 ppm a while back, after complaints from unhappy celiacs over there who were getting sick from it. It just ain't good for us.

[Tim-n-VA]

In other discussions, the common answer seems to be that you have to consume gluten for at least six weeks to get a positive result on a test. Not sure it is valid but I reverse that and think that occasional accidental gluten will not reset your recovery to step one, you'd have to consume gluten for weeks to do that. Of course you should always try to avoid gluten if you have celiac.

I use a car navigation system analogy. If you miss a turn, it recalculates a route to your destination. It doesn't say "You missed a turn you are own your own." Don't let occasional wrong turns keep you from your destination.