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Do retainers contain gluten?

Tricia Thompson2015-06-24T13:10:27+00:00Do parents of children with celiac disease really have to worry that their children's retainers contain gluten? Amy Jones, MS, RD and Tricia Thompson, MS, RD Many of you may have heard about the article “An Orthodontic Retainer Preventing Remission in Celiac Disease” recently published in the journal Clinical Pediatrics. In short, this is a case presentation of a 9 year old girl diagnosed with celiac disease. IgA tTG at diagnosis was 172 U/mL (normal defined as < 20). The authors state...

Hair styling products: Must they be gluten-free?

Tricia Thompson2015-06-23T18:00:33+00:00If you have celiac disease, do you really need to worry about ingesting gluten from hair styling products? Let's take a logical look at this issue. Remember that parts per million of gluten is a proportion—ppm tells you how many parts out of a million parts are made up of a contaminant (e.g., gluten). If a product (food or hair wax) contains 20 parts per million (ppm) of gluten it contains close to 0.6 milligrams of gluten in each ounce of product....