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To: justlurking
Regarding "toleration" levels, with wheat allergy (also called Celiac disease) the more under control you get your diet so you encounter less and less wheat, or wheat byproducts, the more sensitive you become.

So what had earlier been just occasional bouts of non-digestion turn into major problems from just running a knife blade through a piece of bread and then cutting something for yourself out of a non-wheat product.

However, that's good because then your T-cells are not murdering your intestines anymore and you probably won't die of bowel cancer (or some other equally ghastly problems).

The most common version of the gene causing the problem has been traced to Lappland. There are 11 other versions that are less common but seem to have arisen in different populations.

52 posted on 01/10/2009 10:23:24 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

That’s what I’ve discovered about milk. THe more I stay away from it, the more sensitive I become to it.

What really scares me is that I fear it is NON-reversible. I think If I really start going back to milk in a big way, I won’t be able to get back my milk digesting abilities. It used to only cause gas and some minor hand and face puffiness. Now it causes gas, severe bloating, and severe heartburn and acid reflux, sometime to the point of vomiting.


86 posted on 01/10/2009 11:48:16 AM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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