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Thank you for all your responses to my question about behavior and gluten.

I received 47 responses. Everyone said they or their children experienced
behavior changes after ingesting gluten. Some people said they had immediate
effects that lasted only a day. The majority suggested effects of 3-5 days.
There were a few who said 2 weeks and a month. The behaviors seen were
moodiness, tearfulness, hopelessness, anger, rage, hallucinations.

One message that disturbed me was from someone who said they had been
diagnosed with schizophrenia before celiac. There were a few others who
described visual and auditory hallucinations (symptoms used in diagnosing
schizophrenia). While my daughter is not hallucinating (that I know of), I
am concerned that the medical system is not equipped to recognize
hallucinations as a symptom of celiac and order celiac screening for person
who is hallucinating. I know that there are many people who are misdiagnosed
with a myriad of physical health issues before getting a celiac diagnosis,
but people who get diagnosed with mental illness often have other problems
ignored. Treatment of mental illness is typically completely isolated from
other health problems.

Numbers of responses noting specific types of behavior and time it takes to
stop are noted below:

anger or rage behavior: 14
agression: 5
ADD symptoms: 13
depression: 7
grumpiness:2
moodiness: 7
hallucinations: 3
1-2 days: 4
3-5 days: 8
2 weeks or longer:1

Betty

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