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09-30-2006, 02:33 AM | #1 | ||
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Hi all!
If a pregnant mom eats gluten, and if her unborn baby (her fetus) is gluten sensitive, here are a couple of questions: 1) Does the gluten she ate, get into the placenta, and then into the umbilical cord, and then into the fetus' bloodstream? 2) If the gluten she ate, does get into the fetus' bloodstream, what happens to her gluten-sensitive fetus? Carol http://cantbreathesuspectvcd.com |
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09-30-2006, 07:31 AM | #2 | ||
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I have thoughts on this but have not found anything scientific to back up my personal findings:
My one child was born very healthy (7 1/2 lbs, 22 inches long, immediate 9/10 on apgar) but began to 'fail to thrive' (gained only 1/2 expected weight) within 2 weeks of being born even though I had what would probably be considered an 'oversupply' of milk. For three years, he only gained 1/2 the weight he should've. For the last three years, off gluten and other foods, his bone growth has shot up but his weight, though steady, has not increased as expected (which is what happens with children who have 'simple' celiac). Therefore, I think that the sensitivity may be inherited but there may be a lot of 'filters' in place within the mother's system... then once outside in the real world, the molecules, dust, etc. that will invariable enter the baby's system, unfiltered, and have a more profound effect on the infant's system. That's what I think happened to my son, anyway. He did have many other 'allergies' right off the bat too though and I think 'unfiltered' exposure to all of them took it's toll.
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Kind regards, KimS formerly pakisa 100 at BT 01/02/2002 Even Small Amounts of Gluten Cause Relapse in Children With Celiac Disease (Docguide.com) 12/20/2002 The symptomatic and histologic response to a gf diet with borderline enteropathy (Docguide.com) |
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09-30-2006, 09:17 AM | #3 | ||
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This is not about delayed reaction. It is about allergic IgE reactions and these can occur in a fetus.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/conte...16/7149/1926/a Quote:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...play&DB=pubmed Quote:
Of course, I am gluten sensitive and so are both of my children. What about a woman who is not GS/CD (double copies of DQ4) but her unborn child has a copy of a celiac gene from the father? Anne |
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09-30-2006, 09:36 AM | #4 | ||
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I was so bad off with my second child that he not only got compromised nutrition, but he also had to have suffered from the toxicity of my overall system. Can't be good. I could see my older son "going down" about the age of seven. He was getting really spaced out and had these horrific rashes all over his body...chronic sinus infections. That was about the time I was crashing too so fortunately I feel like we "nipped it in the bud". Here is one thought though. I can't see how anyone could have been sicker than I was with my second child. I was such a mess. However, now, with a gluten free diet, both my kids are doing great. They appear to be very healthy (rarely get sick), and they seem to be able to focus just fine in school. So, I do think kids are resilient, and given the right environmental conditions, they can bounce back. Grace |
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