Mandatory Reading For Newbies

[mushroom]

In my browsing I found this summation written by a layperson:

Open Original Shared Link

IMHO, if all newbies were to read this, maybe in a separate thread, as an introduction to the disease/forum, it would help everyone, questioners and responders, in that it would give everyone a solid starting point. I would be interested if everyone else is as impressed with this summation as I was. Somebody has put a lot of work and well-informed effort into this.

[Amyleigh0007]

That is great! I have been at this for 14 months and I still learn something new every day! Thanks for posting.

[happygirl]

It is a good overview,but some of the info on p. 13 regarding labeling is not correct/misleading, in my opinion.

Thanks for sharing. I'm sure many of us will pass it on.

[psawyer]

I have not had time to read the document fully, but overall it seems to be a very comprehensive introduction to the subject, and pretty accurate.

Yes, there are some dubious items on page 13, and page 15 is confusing with regards to prolamins. It implies that all prolamins are gluten, which is not true. The relationship is, in fact, the reverse. The proteins that we are concerned about are a subset of Open Original Shared Link Zein (corn protein) is a prolamin, but is not gluten in the celiac sense.

Lots of good info.

[GFinDC]

I haven't read the whole thing, but it seems like a good idea to have a sticky in the pre-diagnosis forum for new people to review info. There are some articles right here on celiac.com that would probably be helpful for newbies to review. People are often looking for the list of test antibody tests for instance.