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I couldn't agree with vance more!  We should avoid gluten at all costs.
For example:  In February of last year before I was diagnosed with
celiac, I was on a low carb, high protein diet to control my blood sugar
fluctuations.  The diet was designed to be advanced to a more liberal
form by slowly adding small amounts of starches to the diet.  When I
tried to liberalize my diet by adding one small serving of sugar free
bread a day, I became so horridly ill with lower right quadrant pain, I
thought I had appendisitis.  I went to the ER only to get a diagnosis of
"colic."  I gave up the bread & the acute symptoms vanished.  However, I
continued to eat the little peice of sacrament bread each Sunday at
church and little bits of hidden gluten here & there in my diet.  While
the acute symptoms were gone, I continued to feel general malaise,
chronic fatigue & brain fog.  In April of this year, when I finally I
gave up the sacrament bread & really cleaned up my diet of all the hidden
sources I could locate, I felt like a normal person for the first time in
years -- my energy returned, the brain fog lifted, etc.  So it's obvious
that a large gluten load will cause more acute symptoms than tiny bits
here & there, but because we don't know exactly how much gluten we can
tolerate, but our best policy is to avoid it in anyway possible AS IF a
molecule is as bad as a pound.  ~Valerie in Tacoma, WA