Dear Don,
>Ah, you mean steatorrhea! Steatorrhea is the passage of fatty stools that
>are pale, bulky, frothy, greasy, malodorous and they always float. They may
>be liquid or semi-formed. They have many possible causes, but gluten
>intolerance is at the top of the list.
>Often when someone intolerant to gluten goes gluten-free they become more
>sensitive to gluten. This is because the gut is starting to heal and becomes
>more sensitive.
>
>> Can such a sensitive stomach happen so late after childhood(I'm 28)??
>
>Yes. Actually during the teen years gluten problems are most likely to be
>asymptomatic, though mucosal damage will always be present. Ask you mother
>if you were a "colicky baby" when young.
>
Mum's ,away at the moment, so I don't know about when I was a baby, I do
however remember a number of episodes through the years where I have had
colic as a child and a teenager, not all the time but often enough and
painful enough to stay in my mind. The pain was of the kind that I would
have to stay curled up to try and ease it, and soda water was the only thing
that would make it gradually ease. One night my father had me walking around
the block in the rain to try and shift the wind. I also had one false alarm
with appendicitis with hospitalisation for a few days and I clearly remember
being completely off my food at about 15yrs and then being made to eat a
peanut butter sandwich. The result being extraordinary pain and a rush to
hospital for an emergency appendectomy. The surgeon actually commented
afterwards that my appendix wasn't nearly as inflamed as it should have been
for the amount of pain that I was in. I kept getting intermittant colicky
type pain for some time after that and was told that maybe I had stomach
migraine. Things settled down after that until know (except for the odd
episode that I put down to medication).
Back to the here and now, I haven't been able to eat all day since
attempting that pie, and all though the diorrhea settled, I still am very
crampy. I just played netball for an hour and have come home feeling sicker
and more crampy than when I left. This has the potential to be a real pain
in the .... By the by, have had dreadful wheezing after the pie as well.
Just an added bonus.
Regards
Gina, Bathurst, Australia
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