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Mike, there's more damage to the small intestines than the colon because the concentration of gluten is higher in the duodenum, and jejunum than in the colon. Gluten is digested or broken down into peptides along the length of the small intestine, and these peptides are absorbed before they reach the colon in great quantities. That's why a biopsy only...

Just out of curiosity are you an insulin dependent diabetic? You could go to an pharmacy and pick up Glucagon injection kit in cases of severe hypoglycemic episodes. Or do you have post meal (reactive) hypoglycemia? I think for that just glucose tablets would be the best.

Okay maybe not, I've been glutened today.

I've heard of something like this, I think it's called cold agglutinin disease or cold hemagglutinin disease, where the hands get very red, swollen, sometimes even black in cold temperatures. But I think I read it was very rare, like 1/100,000. It caused by antibodies that deposit in the hands (the coldest part of the body) only when the blood cools. ...

Moonmaiden, it's just all one giant CONSPIRACY isn't it? Who else, besides the FDA, doctors and drug companies, do you think are in on it?

Great, another thread bashing MDs. So of course I have to reply. The worst thing any patient can do is to try to diagnose themselves, because 99% of the time they will get it wrong. They just don't have the knowledge to do that. That's why MDs go to school for 10 years, with 8 hour lectures every day, and than 8 hours of studying afterwards. That amount...

Dear Phila, you ** may ** have signs of acute pancreatits. i.e itching, pain, light stools, high white blood cells, high fat content. Also you said that you pain below the right scalpula, which is where pancreatic pain usually radiates. I just want to stress again that it could be a number of different things also, or it could be something benign....

Actually, if you have severe diarrhea combined with vomiting than you could develop hypokalemia, which is potentially serious. Next time it happens I would go to the E.R. for fluid and electrolytes replacement.....although you could have just been tired/dehydrated.

Ferritin is a protein which carries iron in the blood. Increased ferritin means that you have slightly increased iron in your blood. Having ferritin levels slightly higher than the reference range is completely normal. Your body will quickly adjust to it by decreasing intestinal absorption of iron . The only problem that could arise is if you have many...

Racheal, JerseyGirl, I think your points generally make sense and gluten intolerance would definitely be a candidate for research. Especially because there are many people on this board who claim to have seen a dramatic improvement when they went gluten free, and I think you can't ignore the experiences of so many people, even if it doesn't agree 100%...

Jerseygirl, First of all what's this "gluten intolerance"? "Intolerance" means something is not digested in the intestines. As it's not digested it draws water into the lumen of the intestine and produces osmotic diarrhea. For example lactose intolerance. Obviously that doesn't happen in celiac disease as gluten is digested until there's immune mediated...

No actually I am a medical student doing my residency who also has Celiac Disease. So I think I am quite well informed thank you very much. As for 2kids4me, I never said anything about you, but just out interest, as a vetenarian, do you think it's possible to get sick from inhaling gluten particles the size of microns?

Also, when you have 2 diseases at the same time that doesn't mean that one disease causes the other. Both Diabetes type I and celiac disease are autoimmune diseases which means that they're caused by abnormal functioning of the immune system. These are usually caused by mutation of genes that control lymphocytes, i.e. HLA genes. If you have a mutation in...

Mike, allergy=inflammation. They're 2 terms which are used interchangably. One is a medical term while the other is the common name. You can't have allergy/inflammation without charatherisitc cells being present (lymphocytes, neutrophils, mast cells etc.) because these are the cells that release substances which damage tissues and cause the inflammation...

This article is completely bogus. I am afraid this guy just wants to sell the "alpha program" to as many unsuspecting people as he can. First of all he states that the prevelance of celiac disease is 1% of the population. In fact research says that it's not higher than 1/250. Then in the preface it says that the prevelance of celiac disease is 20%. So which...