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I was diagnosed at 14 months (despite being feed gluten from six weeks). It
took about one day. My mother, seeing my first case of steatorrhea took me
to the pediatrician. With one whiff I was diagnosed. I was GF for two years,
eating only bananas, soy milk, eggs, meat, and pancreatic powder. My mother
does not remember how it was determined that I was "cured", but presumably I
was gluten challenged periodically. All I remember of my stools, is in the
teen years I was constipated and had only one a day. It is also well
documented that teenagers are asymptomatic. However, I always had CD, as I
was the skinniest in the class, was the last to make it around the track (if
I could finish at all), had a lot of flatulence, had late developing teeth,
had a deficit of attention, etc, etc.
So, to those of you that say your child is very sensitive to gluten, this
sensitivity is going to go away at some age, but presumably to return later
in life.
Don Wiss.
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