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Article #5208Strange green balls
From: Ruth Mays
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:00
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<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Last month my Mom became very ill- she vomited for three days and nights followed by diarrhea. What came up looked like balls of grass clippings. All of this caused an Addison's crisis, and she ended up in the hospital. The GI doc could not find any reason for her illness- I think they did every test they could think of and then some. In the end, he decided that she has Celiac disease, even though she has never had any symptoms before. He put her on a gluten and lactose free diet (even though she has never had any problems with milk products before.) There was no biopsy done, just blood tests, which were not conclusive for Celiac, but did not rule it out either. He dismissed the report of green balls of stuff- but then, by the time she was in the hospital, there were no more. Has anyone out there ever had anything like this happen? We think it was undigested vegetable matter caused by taking Pepcid (large doses) for a long time, combined with daily doses of Metamucil. Some literature suggests that Pepcid inhibits the digestion of vegetables. If anyone has had a problem like this, please send me private E-mail. Thanks! Ruth Mays, owned by Josephine and Benjamin Cinnaminson, NJ USA 08077 E-Mail:maysrg@mosquito.com * To reply to the List, instead of poster, send to celiac@sjuvm.stjohns.edu *
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1057d8,f0e4fa6348ac85c8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1057d8,public From: Ruth Mays <maysrg@MOSQUITO.COM> Subject: Strange green balls Date: 1996/12/18 Message-ID: <32bb74ec.6833768@mail.mosquito.com> X-Deja-AN: 204750452 sender: Celiac/Coeliac Wheat/Gluten-Free List <CELIAC@SJUVM.stjohns.edu> comments: ******************************************************** approved-by: MJONES@DIGITAL.NET content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Several Organizations mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: maysrg@mosquito.com newsgroups: bit.listserv.celiac x-mailer: Forte Agent .99f/16.299