There are many myths about celiac disease eliac disease is better known as more people learn about it and scientists study it. Here are ten celiac disease myths:

1. Gluten doesn’t bother me so it is OK to eat it
2. If it makes me sick it must contain gluten
3. If it is gluten-free, then it is good for me
4. It isn’t celiac because I don’t have chronic diarrhea
5. I am too fat/too tall to have celiac disease
6. Celiac disease is the same as gluten allergy is the same as wheat allergy
7. I don’t have celiac disease because no-one else in my family has it
8. I was born with celiac disease
9. I can’t even touch something with gluten in in
10. I will outgrow celiac disease
11. Only Irish people get celiac disease

Some of these myths, such as being too fat or tall to have celiac, do have a reasonable basis for why people think this, even though they are not true. Others, such as “If it is gluten-free, then it is good for me” is just wishful thinking where as “If it makes me sick it must contain gluten” is an example of seeing everything too narrowly.

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