terracotta
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My son cannot even use shampoo or soap or toothpaste with gluten without hives and joint pain and swelling. The accidental exposure to gluten last week was through the makeup I was wearing.
People often say they are allergic to something when in fact, it just doesn't agree with them.
If it's a matter of discomfort for her only, I'm not inclined to be sympathetic for her one bit.
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Ugh I went through years of various symptoms. I had a high anti gladin...which is the protein in wheat. While I do not get the severe allergic symptoms, I do have many symptoms to make me feel very lethargic, brain fog, aches and pains like the flu, stomach pain, headaches etc. I don't have celiac. But since I had no help from any doctors I did much research and did my own elimination diet for a year. All the foods that I was sensitive to, were in the grass family. I had hives all over me and had allergy testing done when I was in college...I was allergic to grass and molds. They never even mentioned the food grasses (all grains are grasses).
There are many foods that are similar in their cell structures to wheat...such as coffee. So once you really get into studying and do food eliminations the whole thing put together starts to make sense.
Also wheat is in everything...cosmetics, soaps, shampoos, spices it is just crazy...you have to be very vigilant.
Many people have reactions to grains as they are genetically modified...the wheat today is not the wheat of 40 years ago.
Anyway O/T but no she can certainly eat the grains, but she just won't feel good. But it certainly would be difficult to even think of her discomfort....crickey....she planned a girls' murder