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Originally Posted by tomwed
At least 2 of my kids have celeriac disease. Gluten is poisonous to their lower intestines. Why? It's just theories.
My son just found out. Like me he eats anything and cooks. If you are gluten free do you have any advice about products or cooking?
I sent him the Americas test kitchen book on this subject. For him I think it's just a bump on the road.
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CELIAC disease, or gluten sensitive enteropathy, is generally thought to be a reaction to gluten at the intestinal brush border resulting in destruction of villi and manifesting itself as a malabsorption syndrome with diarrhea and significant weight loss. There are blood tests, such as anti-gliadin antibody levels that can be performed, but some people with clear clinical evidence for celiac disease will test negative, and some people with no symptoms will test positive. Gluten is found in high concentrations in wheat products, but is pretty ubiquitous as well. There is no such thing as a gluten FREE diet, only low gluten diets. Your son should probably not be eating "anything". There are tons of cookbooks and low gluten diets out there, get uses to eating a lot of rice. Unfortunately, low gluten diets have become a "cult" of sorts with all kinds of "experts" advocating low gluten for everybody. Unless you have demonstrated a clear sensitivity to gluten or have been accurately diagnosed with celiac disease, which may require upper endoscopy with a small bowel biopsy, I wouldn't worry about gluten.