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In a recent summary, the following bit of information was posted:

  << Gluten "intolerance" and celiac
disease are two entirely different things........>>


For the record, they're not two entirely different things.    Intestinal
gluten intolerance occurs along a spectrum, with celiac occuring along
that spectrum in varying degrees.

Gluten Intolerance (Gluten Sensitive Enteropathy, Gluten Sensitivity)
means the presence of intestinal antibodies.  Celiac just means the
presence of those antibodies + intestinal damage.

Both of those occur on the spectrum of gluten intolerance.

There are other kinds of non-intestinal gluten reactions (IgE rxns etc)
that are different, but I wouldn't call them 'entirely different' since
gluten is still the offender causing the reaction regardless of where
it's occuring.

To view celiac and gluten intolerance separately is to put a large part
of the population at risk, erroneously letting them believe that they
can ingest gluten without damage.

:)
katherine in atl

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