csaceliacs.org/celiac_symptoms.php
Ok. I’ve spent the last five years of my life learning what happened to my child. I can understand your reluctance to accept what Celiac Disease actually is. I have family members who cannot comprehend the fact that it’s not an allergy. I’ve provided one link. You can google celiac and symptoms all day long and still not find out all there is to know.
If you look at the list of symptoms you will see a variety that add up to what doctors will sometimes deem “asperger’s” or other forms of autism. The brain fog, the failure to thrive, the mood swings, the inability to concentrate, make connections, verbal skills being delayed - all point to brain dysfunction. Frankly, that’s what’s going on. Kids with autism are being put on Gluten and Casein free diets more and more frequently because they often have exactly what Celiacs have… A LEAKY GUT. The leaky gut allows peptides from the casein and gluten to get into their bloodstream. When this happens, TOO many get in due to the leaky gut. (we all have a little getting through) Too many cause a problem. The “brain blood barrier” cannot prevent the peptides in that abundence from getting into the brain. The peptides get into the brain, causing an “opiate” effect. It’s the same as if they’d been taking opium. They get that dull, drooly, non-verbal glaze in their eyes. When a child like my son, who was an infant when his Celiac kicked in, has this happen… He loses those first formative years. He wasn’t making visual and verbal connections. He was doped all day long on “opiates”. He couldn’t learn like a ‘normal’ kid. When you remove the gluten and casein from the diet of a non-verbal, glazed over autistic child, sometimes their conditions makes a dramatic improvement because the condition was caused by a leaky gut allowing peptides to poison them. Their verbal skills improve. There are some great sites on the internet that support folks using this diet for their autistic children for anyone intertested.
When you have a little child who is experienceing the effects of Celiac in the form of peptide poisoning, you get what appears to be a child with autism, aspergers, or SOME problem. It’s up to the doctor to dx what they think it is. My son was thought to have asperger’s. He didn’t. He has Celiac Disease. What I said in my last post about his “rehabilitation” from the poisoning is all true and continue to be so. Celiac Disease is considered a disability for GOOD reason.
And, finally, you are the one not understanding God. He does NOT want us to hurt our bodies. You are wrong to believe it’s acceptable MEDICALLY to ingest even small amounts of gluten if you are a celiac. A celiac requires a 100% gluten free diet for life. There are no small amounts that are ok. If I can put it in terms you might understand… I don’t know of any. 100% gluten free for life is the best way to describe it… How about a “little sperm”? Is a little sperm enought to cause some major consequences??? How about a little peanut butter, just a drop, barely visible, on the tip of the tounge of a peanut allergic person? Would that be ok?
Celiac is an auto immune disorder. Auto immune diseases “piggyback” one another as my rheumatoligist explained to me. His expert medical advice for my son… "keep him away from even trace amounts of gluten. It’s the only auto immune disease we know how to control. If he aggravates his auto immune system he can develop any one of the other, more devastaing auto immune diseases and we can’t control things like R.A., Lupus, M.S., etc… " He told me to be greatful my son’s Celiac was caught early. Most celiacs go 10 years in this country with their celiac undx and end up finding out only when conditions such as M.S., Graves, diabetes, etc are dx. There is concern that undx celiac is the underlying cause. Constant inflamation caused by the gluten leaves the body susceptable to the other auto immune diseases.
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