Visit the Microscopic Colitis Foundation Website
http://glutensensitivity.net/
I haven't read all this, but it does look interesting......
Gluten sensitivity info and primer (not yet Tex approved)
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Gluten sensitivity info and primer (not yet Tex approved)
DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor and don't play one on TV.
LDN July 18, 2014
Joan
LDN July 18, 2014
Joan
I scanned the home page, but when I tried to access one of the full text articles, my browser "hung", so I didn't go any farther. I finally got an adobe message that the file was damaged, and couldn't be accessed. I'll have to try it some other time.
What I read, though, looks good. I especially like their comments about the impracticality of doing a gluten challenge. I've never noticed any other site supporting that viewpoint. I've long considered the insistence of many doctors, that patients do gluten challenges, to be mostly of value for the doctor's ego, and his or her desire for "diagnostic perfection", and of little or no actual value to the patient. If relief of symptoms due to following a GF diet is not good enough to convince a doctor that a patient is gluten-sensitive, then that doctor is obviously hung up on a desire to achieve technical perfection, at the expense of the patient's comfort and/or welfare. I'm not convinced that such behavior is ethical, since it punishes the patient, for no worthwhile purpose.
The big problem, of course, is that most doctors who have that attitude, will insist that the patient should continue to eat gluten, if the test results are negative. That's just plain stupid, isn't it. So why do the challenge, if no one in their right mind would go back to eating gluten, anyway, because of a negative test result.
The site looks good to me, Joan. You know, you're knowledgeable enough about this stuff, that you can post anything you want, without my approval.
Thanks for the link,
Tex
What I read, though, looks good. I especially like their comments about the impracticality of doing a gluten challenge. I've never noticed any other site supporting that viewpoint. I've long considered the insistence of many doctors, that patients do gluten challenges, to be mostly of value for the doctor's ego, and his or her desire for "diagnostic perfection", and of little or no actual value to the patient. If relief of symptoms due to following a GF diet is not good enough to convince a doctor that a patient is gluten-sensitive, then that doctor is obviously hung up on a desire to achieve technical perfection, at the expense of the patient's comfort and/or welfare. I'm not convinced that such behavior is ethical, since it punishes the patient, for no worthwhile purpose.
The big problem, of course, is that most doctors who have that attitude, will insist that the patient should continue to eat gluten, if the test results are negative. That's just plain stupid, isn't it. So why do the challenge, if no one in their right mind would go back to eating gluten, anyway, because of a negative test result.
The site looks good to me, Joan. You know, you're knowledgeable enough about this stuff, that you can post anything you want, without my approval.
Thanks for the link,
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.