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e-mail address included.  Perhaps you younger women can help this
young mother who is just beginning to learn about celiac in infants:

At 6:06 PM -0600 3/17/02, tjsolhjem wrote:
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>Thank you so much for all the wonderful information regarding pregnancies,
>infants and celiac.  We are VERY new to the process/diagnosis but one thing
>we have noticed since our 17 month old daughter was *born* was her incessant
>need to *scratch*...as a newborn, she rubbed her little face on everything,
>when she finally discovered her hands, she could not sleep through the night
>unless my husband sat in the recliner, with her on his lap, holding her
>hands.  During all this time, she was nursed exclusively but I was not
>eliminating anything particular and she was a somewhat fussier baby.  When
>she was introduced to grains, she had an immediate and noticeable change in
>her diaper content and has had diarrhea ever since.  Her skin is still quite
>scaly, she itches constantly and rarely makes it through a night without
>waking up scratching.  So far no soap or lotion relieves this.  We are in
>the process of getting tested rather soon...
>Just a note...we now believe my mom and I have both had celiac, have had
>"IBS" symptoms as long as we can remember and around age 50 she began having
>skin troubles that were diagnosed as psoriasis but now seem to point to DH.
>My maternal grandfather died of intestinal lymphoma and *always* had the
>skinny with distended abdomen appearance.  **Yet** 2 doctors so far have
>refused to test my child for this...we will not give up!!
>Thanks for all your work!
>Jana

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