Tell your friend that if her doctor doesn't trust her diagnosis then find a
different doctor.  We spent years dealing with doctor after doctor until my
daughter said, "lets assume I am a celiac and go gluten free".  Her health
improved, she gained weight, her mode improved, she got taller, and she
stopped having stomach aches.  After a few months she accidentally broke
diet because she didn't know gravy was wheat flour and fat and she was
miserable for a week but she no longer worried that the doctors were not
convinced.

Doctors were taught that celiacs were incredibly rare, 1 in 1800. However,
Northern European descendants have closer to 1 in 100 incidents based on
more recent studies.  That is still pretty rare but 18 times greater than
what doctors think it is.

Wayne


>From: Stardust <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Paleolithic Eating Support List <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: A celiac ?
>Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:57:55 -0400
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>Thank you so very much, I've passed on your answer to my friend who thinks
>she's celiac, her doctor says she isn't.
>
>Maddalena
>
>Lynnet Bannion <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Stardust wrote:
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> >Can the celiac on this list tell if if barley and orzo is OK for celiacs?
> >
> >
>actually I am sure there is more than one, but I am one.
>Barley is off limits, and Orzo is even worse. Orzo is rice-shaped wheat
>pasta, and
>like all wheat pasta is very high in gluten.
>
>Lynnet
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