| If you have ITP and a low platelet count, have | | | | intolerances for that matter. |
| you considered the fact that you might have a | | | | I know this to be a fact, because I experienced |
| gluten intolerance and that is what is wreaking | | | | first hand with my own daughter's experience |
| havoc with your immune system? | | | | with ITP, how by using the same type of |
| Most of the medical community equate gluten | | | | Biotracker testing equipment with two completely |
| intolerance with Celiac disease, an intestinal | | | | different practitioners, came up with two different |
| disorder in which the body reacts to gluten by | | | | results. One showed no current intolerance |
| producing the following symptoms; diarrhea, | | | | whereas the other showed a complete intolerance |
| abdominal pains, weight loss, and a host of other | | | | to any product containing gluten (which is about |
| problems. But more recent medical studies are | | | | almost all grains except for a few), and also an |
| confirming that gluten sensitivity can affect many | | | | extreme intolerance to dairy and yeast. Boy, that |
| different parts of the body besides the abdominal | | | | sure put a damper on my teenager's diet. It just |
| area and intestines. A lot of people who eventually | | | | took care of every single thing that she liked to |
| become ill from ingesting gluten do not develop | | | | eat from yogurt, smoothies, burgers and breads, |
| Celiac disease and the tests for Celiac disease | | | | plus some! It is truly amazing how many food |
| come out negative although the person may be | | | | products on the market have at least one of |
| completely intolerant to gluten. | | | | these items in it. Talk about having to have a |
| Many individual whose bodies cannot tolerate | | | | restricted diet. But you know, it eventually paid |
| gluten show other auto immune disorders instead, | | | | off. By eliminating those items her low platelet |
| such as Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and | | | | count gradually rose to an acceptable level. |
| arthritis. Some doctors suggest that a blood test | | | | Wheat gluten seems to be the main culprit in |
| for antigliadin antibodies should be used to identify | | | | many food sensitivities and when caught early |
| gluten intolerance. Other Naturopathic physicians | | | | enough the damage is treatable and reversible. It |
| use testing equipment such as the Avatar or | | | | is now considered the cause of the rapidly rising |
| Biotracker for definitive results. Some of them | | | | epidemic of auto-immune disorders. Many |
| believe that even the antigliadin test is not always | | | | mainstream medical practitioners have a hard time |
| conclusive. And even with the Naturopathic | | | | coming to grips with this concept. That is why it is |
| physicians some of them do not perform | | | | most important for one to take personal |
| comprehensive enough tests to come to the | | | | responsibility for their own or their loved ones |
| conclusion of gluten sensitivity or other food | | | | health. No one cares like you do! |