<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> This is not advice just my own point of view. I to agree with the fact that if the child has a known potential to be celiac, one must give that child a fighting chance to thrive in the early years, therefore keeping them gluten free. I am not a medical person just the mom of a celiac child who suffered thru 7 mths of "hell" prior to diagnosis. As he was only 14 mths old when the signs started showing he wasn't talking much, just a few words, but he was developmentally on track with all other children in mental aspect and further ahead in the physical aspect. Physically he 1) lost weight, 2) lost muscle tone, 3) quit growing, all the classic symptoms. He started walking at 6 mths, climbing over his baby gates at 9 mths to being carried most of the time at 22 mths. Mentally I feel that his brain starved along with his body. The sicker he got the worse he spoke until at 22 mths when diagnosed we was just grunting and pointing. Physically he rebounded on the diet to a full recovery but he is now in speech therapy (second year pre-school), will be 5 in June and going to Kindergarten in the fall. The speech therapist says that it will take 3-4 years to fix his speech problem. His speech is not ready for kindergarten but intellectually he cannot be held back. He has been tested and lies in the 5% of children in the superior intellectual range. The tester said the results could have been different if he understood Cody better. In my own mind the damage that occurred to my sons body and brain is a direct result of the gluten he was ingesting. [log in to unmask] Karen Bulmer St. Albert, AB, Canada