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A little while ago, there was discussion of whether a mother eating gluten
could transfer it to her nursing baby. Here is some additional input, reposted
with Dr. Horvath's permission
 
Bill Elkus
 
 
To: Bill_Elkus @ lanet1.jefco.com (Bill Elkus) @ MHS
From: khorvath @ umabnet.ab.umd.edu (Karoly Horvath) @ MHS
Date: 09/29/95 08:06:05 AM
Subject: Re: dietary proteins in mothers milk
 
 Proteins ingested by mother can appear in the breast milk. There
is well known disease in breast fed babies called eosinophilic colitis,
which causes eosinophilic infiltration in the large intestine of the
babies and clinically presents as rectal bleeding. The therapy is very
simple: the mother stops ingesting cow milk and cow milk products and the
babies do not have bleeding and they are completely well.
 Based on this clinical syndrome, I do not have any doubt that
gluten peptides can be in the circulation. I recall a study (in some
dermatological journal) detecting circulating gluten in the blood of
patients with DH.
 
Karoly Horvath
Baltimore