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I reacted to all grains - everything in the grass family - and dairy, when
I was doing elimination diet/food challenges.  Oats, rice, millet, corn,
lemongrass tea (and gluten grains).  Also dairy.  I wasn't eating a lot of
these things
often, so they seem like a cross-reaction.  So it seems likely that my
IgA antibodies to gliadin also reacted to dairy and to everything in the
grass family.  You know, there is huge variability in people's immune
systems.  I don't think there is one single protein that is an IgA
anti-gliadin antibody.  Your IgA antibodies to gluten are probably
different from mine.  Some celiacs don't have to avoid corn, I might.  I was
sick for days after eating 1/16 of a grain of corn recently, after avoiding
corn strictly for a year.  So my corn reaction isn't one of those IgG
reactions that only lasts the time of one generation of red blood cells -
a few months.

So I'm wondering, if it is the same antibody as my gluten reaction - might
it also cause intestinal damage or immune system damage like gluten?  I've
heard that it's the IgA/gluten *complex* that causes the damage, so maybe
not.  Also that casein in dairy might cause slight intestinal damage, not
as much as gluten though.

Laura

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