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moultano on Feb 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Who Has the Guts for Gluten?

>If you are one of the lucky less than 1% of the population you don't get celiac...you are born with it.

This is false. My sister developed it in her 30s as a consequence of contracting giardia.

bane on Feb 25, 2013 [–]

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22617359

a case study about this exact thing. There's actually a lot of literature on giardiasis and celiac as they're often confused initially. Biopsy usually sorts it out.

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