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<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>
In a recent summary, the following bit of information was posted:
<< Gluten "intolerance" and celiac
disease are two entirely different things........>>
For the record, they're not two entirely different things. Intestinal
gluten intolerance occurs along a spectrum, with celiac occuring along
that spectrum in varying degrees.
Gluten Intolerance (Gluten Sensitive Enteropathy, Gluten Sensitivity)
means the presence of intestinal antibodies. Celiac just means the
presence of those antibodies + intestinal damage.
Both of those occur on the spectrum of gluten intolerance.
There are other kinds of non-intestinal gluten reactions (IgE rxns etc)
that are different, but I wouldn't call them 'entirely different' since
gluten is still the offender causing the reaction regardless of where
it's occuring.
To view celiac and gluten intolerance separately is to put a large part
of the population at risk, erroneously letting them believe that they
can ingest gluten without damage.
:)
katherine in atl
*Support summarization of posts, reply to the SENDER not the Celiac List*
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