J in Cincy
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On average my DH has been better with a gluten-free diet (additional benefit to 50 mg/day Dapsone) and I have been eating gluten-free for ~6 months. However, I have occasional, seemingly random, outbreaks and it doesn't seem to be getting much better when I thought it was supposed to clear up completely. And without Dapsone I get an immediate rash (<...
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ARCHIVED Dapsone Or gluten-free?
J in Cincy replied to J in Cincy's topic in Dermatitis Herpetiformis
Thanks for all the advice - over whelmingly to go gluten-free. I have been eating gluten-free for the last few weeks except for possibly smoke flavor and carmel color . . . and I'm slowly figuring out products based on the websites. My rash is better (still with 25mg dapsone) but I don't notice anything terribly different as far GI symptoms but I assume... -
I am looking for some advice regarding dapsone use. I have farely minor GI symptoms treatable with prilosec and no villous atrophy. The DH is tolerable with 50mg/day dapsone but I probably need more to completely eliminate symptoms. Both the GI doctor and dermatologist do NOT recommend a gluten-free diet - presumably because it will be too much trouble...
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Ask your dermatologist about dapsone or possibly other drugs to treat DH. Dapsone worked for me within a few days. From what I have read it can take months of a gluten-free diet before you can reduce dapsone dosage and be symptom free. Good luck!