<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> 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