<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>

Thanks for all the responses to my post asking for articles showing a 
correlation between gluten and Schizophrenia.  The overwhelming 
consensus is that Schizophrenia and other behavioural problems 
like Schizophrenia run in familes where there are diagnosed Celiacs.

What is heartbreaking is that most of these mentally ill kin are not
gluten-free for one reason or another.  Patients prefer to hear the 
advice, "Go gluten-free" from their psychiatrists, and not from another
family member, but their doctors are disputing the possibility that 
diet might be a factor in the disease.  Several psychiatrists suggested
that it would be stressful for the child if his diet were changed so 
drastically, though one or two mothers said that they have taken the 
responsibility to help their offspring become gluten-free.  

Laura referred me to her summary of the DDW conference.  Go to 
www.celiac.com and click on 'Celiac in the 90's and Beyond'  where 
Dr. Fasano says that there can be a change in behavior such as ADD, 
Depression, and Schizophrenia (when gluten crosses the blood brain
barrier.)

Ginny referred to two articles.  Click on following website:
http://www.celiac.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_main.html?p_catid=7
Scroll down to: Schizophrenia:/ Malabsorption and Delinquency ....
and: Schizophrenia:  Mental Problems and Celiac Disease.

In my original post I referred to a publication from the Schizophrenic 
Society of Great Britain .  Go to http://www.sagb.co.uk and click on 
"Our Research" and "The Disease and it's Syptoms" then scroll down 
to "Damage to the Gut" 

Finally I received an article from Ron Hoggan, in pdf format which he had 
published in Interchange 5 years ago.  "Absolutism's Hidden Message
for Medical Scientism"  Ron had looked at the work of W. Dicke and 
F.C. Dohan who "each discovered  answers to pathologies through
dietary exclusion of gluten" in the 1940s to 1970s and beyond.  Dr. Dicke
realized that gluten-free diets were beneficial to Celiacs while Dr. Dohan
found that Scizophrenic symptoms diminished in psychiatric patients 
when gluten, and cassein was removed from their diets.  The work of these
two doctors was rudely dismissed by the medical community, though Dr. 
Dicke's findings were finally accepted 12 years later, to be the only
successful treatment for Celiac Disiease.  Dr. Dohan's findings have been 
largely ignored.

I agree with Ron that the Medical Community has, for whatever reason,
fallen victim to it's own teaching practices.  Ron states, "Definitions are 
rigid. Inherent in the correct perspective, is a constant narrowing of the field 
of enquiry ...."   Many of our psychiatrists have developed the view that 
medication is the only treatment for psychosis, and if it doesn't work, try 
more medication.  Are they so far removed from their patients that, even 
when presented with evidence of some other cause, they reject it?  This 
has been the case with our son for whom parents are both celiacs.   
His doctors have refused to test for Celiac Disease though they have forced
 him to take powerful drugs.
.

* Please include your location in all posts about products *