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For the thousandth time -- and with all due respect to science -- gluten can
enter the body through all means, including skin, lungs, nose, etc. For
those of you who have never experienced this phenomenon, please stop saying
gluten has to touch your lips. It is simply not true. 


People differ on how they wish to
handle this sort of thing, but the scientific fact is that gluten affects
you
only if it reaches your gut. You cannot absorb the molecules through your
skin.
Please forgive the redundancy if you already understand that; many people do
not. Some on this list have been certain that a skin rash was caused by
touching gluten. Certainly, it was caused by something, but it wasn't caused
by
that.

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