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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