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In response to how much gluten is too much.  Even though my doctors say
any is too much, I have always had a problem with that.  I was diagnosed
last May and therefor had been ingesting gluten for 33 years on a regular
basis with no outward signs.  My question...  If the prognosis is that if
you don't follow a celiac diet you would be a higher risk for long term
effect ie.  cancer, Crohns, etc., does that mean I am likely to get
something of that nature?  Would it also be true that my son, diagnosed
at 22 months would have a lesser risk since he had not been eating gluten
as long?  Also since he had definite visible reactions to gluten and I
didn't...does this mean that the effect on him was more severe than on
me?  that even though he never ate gluten for long would he be a high
risk for long term effects since he reacts more strongly?

One last item.  In reading this list it also seems that different
countries allow different "gluten containing foods", ie.  wheat starch
and vinegar.  If the disease is the same disease throughout the world,
how can there be differences in the treatment of the disease?

--karen, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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