Gluten intolerance isn't can't be clinically diagnosed, proven. It's totally subjective and interestingly, the doctor who invented the term and made a millions writing books and giving lectures has recently done a complete about face. He now says he got it wrong, he didn't do enough research and got it all wrong. He now says that gluten intolerance doesn't exist. A person either has Celiac Disease (which is verified by biopsy) or they do not. He says that most of the people who insist that their symptoms (which are subjective and anecdotal) improve when they eliminate wheat, actually have other conditions that go undiagnosed and untreated because they self diagnose and when the insist they are better, their let it go because there is no harm in a gluten free diet. But often the real condition these people have cannot be determined. So, my good friend who is a physician wrote him and asked a question that he hasn't answered yet. Her question was if gluten sensitivity doesn't exist and if patients who have symtoms that respond to a gluten free diet, if he believes that there is a "condition" but doesn't know what it is...why can't it be called "gluten sensititvity"?. At any rate, people who actually have Celiac Disease. Verified by biopsy. Those people can indeed "inhale" gluten. And it doesn't have to be tossed in the air or waved around. Breads etc have "spores" and if a person who has Celiac sits at a dinner table with someone who is eating bread or rolls, that person can breathe in the spores and it's like eating wheat. I would not have believed this if I just read it. But a dear friend was diagnosed with Celiac after 15 years of agony, at the time she had two teenage boys. She's an RN and was so over joyed to get the diagnosis that she was 100% compliant with the diet. But she continued to have symptoms. To jump to the end. The boys ate a regular diet and they ate many meals together as a family. Lot's of sandwhiches and pancakes, crackers and pizza dough in her kitchen and at the dinner table. When a nutritionist told her about the "spores", we all laughed. But she cleaned out her kitchen, started separating foods and no longer shared the dinner table with anyone who was eating a breads etc. And she improved 100% All of her symptoms when away and she's been healthy ever since. A bit lonely and isolated because so many social functions revolve around food. But healthy. As for people who are gluten sensitive, just like the condition itself. If they think that inhaled gluten or breathing in gluten "spores" is detrimental to them, then it is. Because for them, everything is subjective. They have to go by what their body tells them.
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