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I am always amazed where gluten pops up.  Cosmetics is an area that
Andrea Marshall <[log in to unmask]> brought up.  This is not
unreasonable.  Celiacs will get symptoms with the ingestion of 10 to
100 mg of gluten.  10 milligrams is the amount of powder you can pile
up in a lower case letter "o", so it is entirely reasonable to imagine
there is sufficient gluten in cosmetics to make one ill.
Alternatively, cosmetics may be a cause without there being any gluten.
Celiacs as a group are more allergy prone, and cosmetics, soaps, and
detergents rank high on the list of things to stop in people with
allergy problems.

Stephen Holland, M.D.

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