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Jerry Diakiw <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 28 Mar 1999 08:50:14 -0500
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My wife has been gluten free for 20 years, after being mis-diagnosed for ten
years previously.  She was down to 80 lbs when they finally got it right.
While see was incredibly tired,and weak her only obvious symptoms were
unformed pale loose stool.  She has been incredibly disciplined ever since.
She has however, occasionally ingested gluten through condiments such as soy
sauce, ketchup, chicken stock powder and ice cream with no apparent negative
effects.  On at least two occassions she has had a violent attack of nausea,
explosive diarrhea, fainting and seizure( she does tend to have a seizure
whenever she faints, for whatever reason.  Fortunately, not very often).

She always assumes that she has ingested an unknown source of gluten since
these episodes have happened soon after eating. I suspect it is food
poisoning since she never had these violent reactions when she consumed
large quantities of French bread traveling in France before being
diagnosed, for example. One of her violent reactions was however
preceded by eating a supposedly gluten "lite"  pumpernickel sandwich as an
experiment. Was it the pumpernickle or was it what was in the sandwich?

Anyone have any thoughts on this pattern of reaction?

Jerry

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