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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
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.
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Thank-you, I'm learning what I can and appreciate your help.
He was diagnosed by a doctor with celiac disease and had an endoscopy. He presumes he was accurately diagnosed. After 6 weeks if he doesn't feel better maybe a second opinion is the way to go. He's smarter than me. You both are.
I know gluten free diets are also a fad, the craze, the new atlkins, call it what you will. It's now a 10 billion business and 6 years ago there were not as many alternative "pastas","breads" and "beers".
This seemed like a good place to ask gluten free eaters what they found tasty.