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Plan: DDF
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Location: San Diego, CA
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Gluten sensitivity confirmed by genetics and blood tests in irritable bowel syndrome
http://thefooddoc.blogspot.com/2007...nfirmed-by.html
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Gluten sensitivity is very common, much more common than celiac disease. However, both celiac disease and gluten sensitivity are often missed, ignored or misdiagnosed. It is widely accepted celiac disease affects approximately 1% of people worldwide. It is commonly accepted that between 3-4% of people previously diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have undiagnosed celiac disease. Dr’s. Rodney Ford, Ken Fine and I believe that many more than this are gluten sensitive. We believe that the presence of an elevated serum gliadin antibody is indicative of gluten sensitivity in most people. We concede that such individuals often do not have “true celiac disease” as it is now strictly defined by presence of HLA DQ2 or DQ8, a positive IgA endomysial antibody test or tissue transglutaminase IgA antibody with characteristic small bowel biopsy. However, our experience is that such individuals commonly present with symptoms identical to those with celiac disease and these symptoms respond to a gluten free diet. Now, researchers from Germany provide their scientific data that validates what we have observed and have been writing about. In the July 2007 issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Wahnschaffe et al., from Germany report that gluten sensitivity causes symptoms meeting criteria for diagnosis of diarrhea predominant irritable bowel syndrome (d-IBS) that responds to a gluten-free diet.
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