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Tracey wrote: He 'splained to me that if you have no
damaged villi  -- i.e., a negative biopsy -- you are given the diagnosis
of gluten allergy  ... and if you have damaged villi, then you are
diagnosed with sprue.

He found it quite absurd that in U.S., at least with the few doctors
I've chatted with  ... that there is no delineation between a gluten
allergy and sprue  ... In his years as a GP he found that those
w/out wasting and w/out villi damage suffered all the other symptoms --
fatigue, thinning hair, neurological problems, arthritis/bone pain, etc.
And that those with wasting and trashed villi did not typically have the
other symptoms  ... <snip>

***** Interesting but what would be the "treatment" difference between
gluten allergy & sprue????

This auto immune stuff is quite variable.....

I was going on a steady downhill healthwise as my GP doc could not
figure out the problem.....for 8 months. I finally bailed & found a
gastroenterologist who saw the textbook gluten intolerance symptoms
right away <day one>.

*IF* I remained undiagnosed & the villi became entirely wiped out.....
perhaps it would have progressed to the point of "wasting"?

All I know is, it seems the end, the Rx is the same.......

~Fran