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At 10:58 PM on 3/12/97 Tim wrote:

>On the bright (?) side, if you need an emergency operation you are going to
>be nil by mouth anyway. And if you are unconcious it is unlikely that they will
>try to put any food or drink down your throat because of the risk of choking.
>I'm not a doctor, but I would have thought that injected drugs wouldn't need
>any sort of starch carrier and so should be safe.

As far as I know there ARE injected drugs that contain gluten.  And my very
good friend was given an IV for a regular intervenous feeding and it
contained gluten!  I'm sure there is more information of this - I just
wanted to mention that this can happen if you are being "fed" while
unconcious (not via your throat).  And most medical people that I have come
in contact with are unaware of any of this.  Kathy