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Hello everybody,

I have a question...Up until recently, I was taking a product that had the following on the label: This product is specially formulated to be free of wheat, gluten etc...  This is a homeopathic medicine put out by a pharmaceutical grade company.  I have taken this product before with no problems, but she put me on it again several weeks ago, and almost instantly I had gluten intolerant reactions.  Well, I called her and naturally she doubted I knew what I was talking about, so I thought okay, maybe it is from something else and kept taking it.  Then about 3 weeks later, on another bottle of this stuff I notice a tiny little inch sized disc sticker with the words: "This product contains wheat, derived carbohydrate..."  I was shocked...I called the Doctor immediately and she had trouble with that because the company has such a high standing reputation.  When she told the company of my reaction, they are telling her that there is no way I could have had a reaction to there product because there is no gluten in it.   Long story short, she now needs to know if wheat, derived from carbohydrate has gluten or can cause a gluten reaction.  I have looked for this answer, but can't find it anywhere.  Does anybody out there know the answer and can you direct me to solid evidence?  Thanks in advance.

Elizabeth Edwards
Phoenix, AZ 
Diag: Jul 2004

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