Do people with celiac have to watch out for cross contamination?
A gluten allergy IS NOT something that causes gas and bloating, that is and intolerance.
My son has a gluten allergy and will go into anaphylactic shock if he ingests even trace amounts.
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Celiac’s disease is where you can’t digest gluten so you can’t have anything with it, a gluten allergy is where if you have gluten it may not be digested very well.
celiac disease is the cause of an untreated gluten allergy.
Gluten allergy is where you get bloated, gassy, and the small intestines become inflamed from eating products containing gluten, so wheat, oats, etc.
Plenty of foods now are being made gluten free but you still have to read the labels because any by product of wheat, oats, barley have gluten.
Corey covered it. My friend has a gluten allergy. She can eat it, but it makes her break out in hives.
Edit – Nutritionist makes a good point about gluten being hidden. My friend has a lot of gluten free products to keep from getting sick.
Anne,
Celiac disease is a condition in which the lining of the small intestine is damaged by an allergic reaction to the food protein gluten which is present in a number of grains. It is said to be an auto-immune disease since antibodies produced by the immune system against specific gluten components, namely gliadin, cross react with intestinal tissue which contains similar proteins. Gluten consists of many long elastic chains of proteins lined along each other, giving it the characteristics of a dough. Not all of them cause Coeliac disease, but some can cause irritation to the small intestine, enough to hinder the cells of the lining from enzymes production to break down foods. To confirm if a person is Non Coeliac Gluten Intolerant – NCGI – they should do an elimination diet. Avoid all gluten food for at least two weeks and then introduce it. If symptoms return, and previous tests were negative or inconclusive then it shows that the person is NCGI. People with NCGI suffer from similar symptoms of food intolerance and Glutenzyme that is capable of breaking down gluten proteins can be the solution for a normal diet reducing or eliminating symptoms associated with NCGI.
Hope this helps
matador 89
A gluten allergy is just like any allergy and releases histamines and causes issues like hives, sniffles, and anything else that your body can do reacting to it. Celiac disease is a gluten intolerance caused by the gluten changing the lining of the small intestine, flattening the villi in the intestinal wall and eventually leaking through into the body where it causes problems. Plus the changes in the intestinal wall and flattening of the villi cause malabsorption of nutrients and disruption in the digestion and elimination cycles of the body. The malabsorption of different nutrients can cause different symptoms that makes celiac disease hard to diagnose. Also the disruption in the digestive cycle also makes celiac disease mimic other symptoms and masks the diagnosis.
Now to complicate things, people can have either a gluten allergy or gluten intolerance or both. They could also have just a wheat allergy and gluten intolerance. All sorts of combinations.
People with celiac disease have to watch for cross contamination just like someone with an allergy. One reference I have read estimated that the tip of a knife of a piece of cake was enough gluten to cause troubles for a celiac. So not much gluten to cause problems.