This is very interesting....I know an Irish American with this disease and he has Psoriasis and food allergies as well as respiratory allergies.
Even when he avoids all the foods (wheat and others) he knows affect him negatively..he still has a hard time.
But it is much worse if he gets any wheat by products by accident.
In regard to drug tolerance, I am studying similar issues in Native Americans....the field is called Pharmacogenetics.
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Oh really, I dont know but it made since to me than..
yeah, tosh is not the word for it though.
Decades ago Celiac Sprue was referred to as "the Irish Disease" since the potato famine unearthed so many sick Irish & many actually dies from eating wheat.
See, if you do not know the story, there was a potato disease struck in Ireland & parts of Scotland , too, I believe.
The English in great gerorosity trucked in tons of wheat the feed the starving Irish.
Many died right away...others continued ill for weeks until the discovery of exactly what the disease was all about.
So for many many years of my life, and way before computers, I had all this issues...skin disorders & strept throat (several times a year for months at a time & the doc would give me massive antibiotic treatments to kill off the strep he said I was a "carrier"
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Once computers came out, I searched & searched & self diagnosed and was laughed at by docs.
They refused to test me.
One said "Celiac Disease? Do you know how rare that is ?" he laughed !!!
I read all about what happens when a celiac eats wheat...I had every symptom case book.
I was a poster child.
Finally got a gastro to test me.
So it all worked out.
And since my research we have come to find out there are alot more celiac sufferers than once thought.
It is NOT just a Celtic Disease !
Italians, Scandiavians and even Africans are turning up with this disease.
Something like, I think...maybe as many as 1 in 10 ???
