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Hi I live in Australia and we can give blood with celiac disease. It is mainly infectious things they worry about, like aids, hepatitis, etc. I am on the Bone Marrow Registry but have since found out they don't take celiacs if they come up as a match. Not sure why.............don't think you could give a person celiac disease by giving them blood......
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ARCHIVED Anybody Diagnosed With Gluten Ataxia?
spk1954 replied to balanc's topic in Related Issues & Disorders
From what I gather Gluten Ataxia is one manifestation of celiac disease. Evidently a lot of people present to doctors with no intestinal problems at all. They invariably have remittance of symptoms with a gluten free diet. I guess it is like Dermetitis Herpetiformus. With one the antibodies appear in the skin lesions (on testing the blisters are positive...