<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Dear Celiacs, and their families; I like to thank you all for the great interest, response and help. I have tried to reply everybody personally but if I missed anybone please forgive me. After trying many times without any success I have decided to make some investment and buy a new system! It will take some time...I will let you know about the progress. But there is something important and like to share with you all. Have you ever heard about "lectin poisoning"? I have been on a very strict GF, lactose free, citric acid free and soy free diet for the last 20 months. I have no problem with my bowels but the upper right abdominal pain and chronical hives(urticaria) never went away. I live in an academical environment and everybody was concern about my problems. Last week a professor of Chemical engineering send me a recently published paper about lectins... Lectins are proteins and found in almost everything but basically in wheat, legumes especially in red kidney beans and even in tomatoes, potatoes and meat... Their damage on the villies are same as gluten... So the paper talks about how the lectin poisoning and celiac disease were mixed up by the doctors. an important difference between two disease is chronical urticaria which never goes away even after a very careful diet! Since lectin is almost in everything but in different levels its impossible to prevent contamination or intake. But there is a cure or solution; sugars with large molecules. So I asked to the dean of the pharmacology department and he suggested carob powder, and licorice as large molecule sugars... I have found carob powder producer who exports them to USA and licorice roots directly from the nature.. I have been eating and drinking them for about a week... My pain is much less then before!!! Urticaria seems getting better too.. Have anyone ever experienced anything like this before? Or can anybody refer me any resource about lectins, effects and elimination? I hope I wont be disappointed and also hope finally my prays are answered! Thank you all again..