<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Norman Dewar <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >This may seem a trivial question but why is the word disease > used in connection with celiac. Personally I feel I have a live > long condition but I don't have a "disease" . It isn't in many > ways a disease in the typical sense of the word. Personally, I couldn't agree more. I tell people my son has 'Celiac' or 'Celiac Sprue', and I don't want my son (age 8) to think of himself as having a disease. In a light hearted way, when I talk about Celiac with others, I sometimes say that THEY have 'Arsenic Disease' since their metabolism is such that arsenic is toxic to them. Gluten just happens to me far more common in food than arsenic. I realize that this is a stretch, but it tries to make the same point as Norman did: > People think if you have a disease, you are sick but I'm not sick > (or a least not very often) Bill Elkus