Wolf wrote:First things first, Leanna has Pm me and I am awaiting her reply to me, That will be taken care of differently, as moderator. I only mention it because it was already brought up on the forum.
Now, with that out of the way, this reply is not moderator, this is me and some, not all of my thoughts. Seagoatdeb, Your choice of words should probably be looked at as Pajarita's statement concerning Celiacs Disease or non celiac gluten sensitivity is not incorrect as shown in your own link there have indeed been studies refuting the existence of this horrible condition, and that is all that she said about it. Perhaps she could have also stated that there are other studies that support the existence of this disease, but she did not, but that does not make her statement incorrect.
Beyond this, I do not know what to think about this condition as of yet. I am sure that my opinion is going to go through multiple changes over time. Why ? My newest neighbors wife and child are affected by at least gluten sensitivity, which I only recently became aware of as I have been asked to pick him up after school since the parents jobs are preventing them from being able to do this themselves and this means that he eats once a day here with us. So I will be looking into this more closely, both scientifically and from personal observations.
I will say something about this, since you have mentioned it, although I do not believe we should be discussing this in a Parrot Forum. But you said some things that need to be clarified. Gluten sensitivity is not a "disease" It is a reaction. An allergy is when the reaction is fairly immediate, A Intollerance or sensitivity is when the reaction takes longer. Wheat has many components in it that we may be having a reaction to both allergic and intolerant. The common blood test used look for two antibodies to diagnose Gluten problems. There is a more expensive tests that look for antibodies in your blood to other components in the gluten and in other parts of the wheat. They are not always used because they are more expensive, so if your doctor wont use them, or your insurance wont pay, you need to go on a foodmap diet where you remove all foods including all the gluten ones as they are foodmaps too, to see if you start to feel better. Then you must slowly add some in. This is a long process you are very deprived, and expensive as well. If you are lucky enough to get the test that looks for all antibodies to wheat and you show as having some antibodies to ones that would not show on the simple test, then you go off wheat and all other foods that contain the component the antibody was trying to fight. I had to go through over 20 years on highly restrictive diets untill, finally I found a doctor and financing, and could have the Array 3 from Cyrex Laboratories. Once I was able to only take out the foods that contained components my body could not handle I was able to eat many more foods and be healthy. So I had lab proof and a docotors diagnosis. There is no guess work here. My body has the antiboides to show it is intolerant and allergic. Cold hard proof. Insurance companies usually wont pay for the expensive test and promote all research that uses only cheap tests. Now this should not really be discussed here but I made this post to show how offensive the links Pajarita posted and her comment to those of use who suffered through this. All studies that say it doesnt exist want you to go on a restrictive food map diet or other restrictive diet rather than finding out what you are really reacting too. This is why medical comments should not be made here because it is a Parrot Forum. I would be happy to argue non celiac sensitivity in any forum there for this purpose.
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