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Thanks for all the wonderful people who wrote to me.  Some wrote to give
ideas, others just wrote to give me support.  What follows is a brief
summary of the things people said.

Lays potato chips and frozen vegetables and cross contamination

Milk, soy, yeast, rice can all cause blunted villi

Vance sent me info about 2 enzymes: Maltase is an enzyme that converts a
white crystalline water-soluble sugar, called maltose or malt sugar, to
glucose. So if your gut is not able to produce this enzyme you may have
a hard time digesting table sugar or simple carbohydrates like bread
and/or pastas (GF of course). And Sucrase (also called invertase) is an
enzyme that converts cane sugar into invert sugar, which is a mixture of
glucose and fructose that is formed naturally in fruits, but produced
artificially by treating cane sugar with acids. So basically if you
cannot produce this enzyme you may have trouble digesting sucrose, table
sugar and syrups.  This problem digesting these sugars may manifest as
little more than gas or an uncomfortable bloating and feeling of being
full long after you've eaten.  Or they may cause more GI distress, up to
resembling an encounter with gluten.

 Some suggested the vinegar problem.

Someone suggested "Breaking the Vicious  Cycle"  (I tried this diet and it
did not work for me.)

A number of people said to check my diet again (which I am doing)

Some suggested medications ( I personally call the manufacturers myself on
all my medications)

Someone suggested that there might be a problem with some of the gluten free
flours and cross contamination.  (I don't use any because I am allergic to
rice and the gums used to hold stuff together)

Laura was kind enough to send me an article about Celiac disease.  It is
very detailed and interesting, but please send me an e-mail if you wish to
have a copy of it forwarded to you.

I tried to answer each person.  Thanks for all the support and I will
continue my detective work as well as talking to my doctor on Monday about
some of the other causes for blunted villi.

Carolyn