What are the symptoms of being allergic to gluten

What symptoms first caused you to suspect that you had a wheat or…?

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I’ve had IBS for years, and every time I saw a list of symptoms for celiac, I’d notice how much the symptoms of IBS and Celiac overlap. But what finally forced the diagnosis was hitting the stage of anaphalaxis and staying there for three m…

Does gluten allergy cause any other symptoms?

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Yes. It can also cause skin and ear infections, idiopathic seizures, chronic stomach problems such as flatulence, diarrhea, burping, and it may also cause inexplicable behavior changes. It is essential that you have your dog examined prompt…

What are symptoms of gluten allergy?

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Celiac disease (aka – hypersensitivity to wheat protein gluten) can present at any age from 6 months to 80 years old. This ailment does have a wide spectrum of gastrointestinal and extraintestinal manifestations: diarrhea, poor weight gain,…

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How do I know im allergic to gluten?

Q: What are the symptoms?

A: symptoms vary by patient. keep a food diary, avoid the trigger food, have benedryl & an epi pen handy at all times, and read labels at least 3 times before consuming food product. avoid processed foods and follow up with your allergist.

Could I be allergic to Gluten?

Q: Does anyone have a Gluten Allergy that they can explain the symptoms to me? I have terrible stomach pain every time I eat and I feel very sleepy and depressed after eating. I do not eat a lot and I do not have to use the bathroom it is just a very full pain. Please help! I don’t even want to eat anymore. ps. I stopped eating pasta and bread for a few days and did not feel bad…does that mean I could be allergic to Gluten?

A: I think it is definitely a possibility that you are intolerant to gluten. I have Celiac Disease (which means I cannot eat gluten) and the symptoms are different for everyone. Some common symptoms are stomachache, cramps, headache, diarrhea, and things of that nature. There are a couple ways you can find out if you are intolerant to gluten.1) Go on a gluten-free diet for a set amount of time (say two-weeks) and see if you are feeling better. Remember gluten is not just wheat, it is wheat, oats, rye, barley, and malt flavoring. Also natural flavors can be wheat derived. 2)You could take an enterolab stool test to see if you have Celiac. I would not recommend going to a doctor for a blood test because those are not accurate, and regular doctors don’t know too much about Celiac or gluten sensitivity. Hope I helped! 🙂

Allergic to gluten?

Q: For the past few years, I have been so sluggish and tired, all the time. I have had my thyroid tested and it’s normal. A friend suggested that I may have a sensitivity to gluten. Does anyone here have a gluten allergy? What are the symptoms besides being tired? What do you eat? Is there a test I can get from my doctor? Any helpful resources? Thanks in advance!

A: When they tested your thyroid, did they do the TPOab or TGab test? I had been going to the docs with the same symptoms as yours for years and they had done thyroid testing (so they said), they even did a thyroid sonogram and they kept saying everything was fine and they just kept putting me on anti-depressants which yielded a slew of complications. Then one doc who was an MD and an naturopath (God Bless her), she did the antibody tests I mentioned above and low and behold I have Hashimoto’s autoimmune thyroiditis. I’d never heard of such a thing. As it turns out your TSH should be below 3. I know the labs say up to 6 is fine, but it should be between 1 and 3 optimally. If your anti-body level is elevated, then there is a whole list of supplements you should be on. However, after I was diagnosed she told me I should avoid milk because it is an autoimmune trigger since the proteins are so similar to our own body proteins that it confuses our immune systems. She also said stay away from gluten because it wears down or stretches out your intestinal lining which makes it more permeable for anything we ingest to get into our bodies and wreak havoc. So I took her advice and we went on a Gluten free/Casein free diet otherwise known as the GF/CF diet. This was all in March/April of this year. We had been going to therapy with our son for a year and a half already (He just turned 5 in July). Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy and neurologists, psychologists and so on. (He is up over 30 doctors he’s been to now). He was diagnosed with ADHD and sensory integration Dysfunction. In July we made it to a doctor who put one more piece in the puzzle when she diagnosed him with Pervasive Developmental Disorder (it is in the Autistic Spectrum). So I fired up my computer and low and behold it said that the GF/CF diet is one of the best things to do for these little guys. We’d then been on the diet (the whole family) for 3 1/2 months. That same month we began noticing major changes. He was able to swim. They said he may never swim because of the sensory difficulties. To him he received the same tactile sensation all over his body and he couldn’t tell where he was in the water. It was like a miracle. He began speaking better, walking better and better coordination, etc. So much so that the school who in March asked us to keep him out another year in October reevaluated him and said please start him now or he will be too far behind. He is doing so well that despite missing the first half of kindergarten he will probably move on to first grade with his class. So come Mid-Oct and having been on the diet around 6 months, I decided to try him on some oats since they have the least amount of gluten. The first day he had just a bowl of granola cereal for breakfast. That evening he had prickly hives. I figured he got into something. 3 days later he had granola again for breakfast and a granola bar with lunch within 3 hours he spiked a fever of 103.5 and just layed there, which this kid never just lays anywhere. He had hives the size of half dollars. I took him to the doc the next day and asked her to do some testing because I finally connected the dots between the oats and the reaction. He came back with elevated levels of gliadin antibodies. (It has to do with gluten). Supposedly if you have not been on gluten this test should come back negative, so just that little bit of oats over a 4 day span was enough to make his system go haywire. All this to say that he most likely has Celiac disease, which is a hereditary disorder. It is a good chance that he got it from me based on my other symptoms. Granted in the beginning the symptoms were just being tired all the time even though I insisted I was not depressed. I plan to go get tested for this as we are waiting for his final diagnosis before I go running around getting blood tests. Keep in mind if you want to do a trial run of being off gluten to see what happens before paying all the money to go to doctors, It can take 6 weeks of being off gluten to BEGIN seeing changes. If you are dedicated to the diet you will probably have your answer without going to the doc. However, if you go on the diet first, then try to get tested, you can have a false negative because you have to have gluten in your system to show a reaction. By the way, this is a gluten intolerance, not an allergy. If it is simply an allergy, that should go away as soon as the allergen is removed. Symptoms besides being tired for me have been brain fog or disorganized thinking, low energy, acne or breakouts, endometriosis, arthritis or other inflammations, gastrointestinal upset (bloating, diahrea, constipation, gas, indigestion, acid reflux…),fibromyalgia, gluten ataxia (a neurological misfiring of varying degrees sometimes misdiagnosed as dysgraphia which is handwriting difficulties or other coordination complications, and in the more severe cases Multiple Sclerosis, developmental disorders, cerebral palsey…) Other reactions can include skin rash (blisters that itch, then dry and get leathery, but still itch, then they go away if you don’t eat gluten)If you decide to go to the doc for the gluten test, One of the tests is the anti-gliadin antibody (IgA test). And I think the other one is called the IgG, but I don’t know what it stands for. Give me another week and I bet I will.What do you eat. Veggies, meats, fish, fruits, eggs, rice, corn, potatoes…We avoid milk and milk products unless they are made from the cream only because that is fat, not protein. So real butter is ok, real cream is ok (check the label sometimes they add milk to it), real whipped cream so long as it doesn’t have milk in it. If there is carmel in something call the manufacturer to ask if it is wheat based carmel. Otherwise anything with wheat, oats, barley, spelt, rye, couscous and a slew of others have gluten. So rice chex would be ok if you don’t mind BHT for a preservative. That kind of thing. Because of the leaky gut problem we avoid anything artificial including colors, flavors, preservatives, additives…We also try to eat organic. Most stores are getting better about having organic carrots and apples. Of all the fruits it is most important to get organic apples because they are the worst offenders for absorbing pesticides and chemical fertilizers, etc. From what I’ve been told.celiac.org is a good resource I think. something else to consider for the problem of tiredness is systemic candida. You can have it without having symptoms.http://www.fungusfocus.com/html/candida_info2.htmthis web site seems to have a lot of good info. I don’t know if they are trying to sell anything, but the info is good.