Comments on: Gluten Allergy and Asthma http://www.allergy-details.com/gluten-allergy-c/gluten-allergy-asthma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gluten-allergy-asthma Gluten Allergy / Gluten Free Diet / Yeast Allergy / Asthma / + other Allergies Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:41:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.9 By: Ellen http://www.allergy-details.com/gluten-allergy-c/gluten-allergy-asthma/comment-page-1/#comment-86303 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:41:36 +0000 http://www.allergy-details.com/?p=2193#comment-86303 I’ve had “exercise induced asthma” since puberty. I discovered over ten years ago, while trying one of the low-carb diets, or more accurately, going off one of the low-carb diets, that eating wheat was directly linked to the sensation of my throat closing off, and the sensation of mucous in my lungs. Since that time, I’ve had the opportunity to repeatedly test wheat, rye, and barley, for example, when nestle changed their ingredients on some product and I didn’t read the label that one time. These days, eating gluten isn’t just an “exercise induced asthma” trigger. It also sometimes leads to other gluten-dependent exercise induced reactions like full body itching, nausea, lightheadedness, uncontrollable sneezing, swollen lips and puffy eyes, or hives, but usually it is just not being able to breathe well. Gluten + exercise within 36 hours = “asthma”. Gluten + aspirin/ibuprofen = “asthma.” Gluten + nighttime = “asthma.” Yes, rye and barley also provoke symptoms for me. Oats do not.

Before I figured it out, I was using Proventil daily, and also flovent, which wasn’t enough. These days, I have no maintenance meds, and I use Proventil around 1-2 times per year, usually due to label-reading error on my part. My symptoms as a whole indicate an allergy, though I always come up negative on the allergy tests. Of note, I can always tell when I’ve eaten gluten, as my throat will tighten just a little bit within 5 minutes.

This year, I qualified for Olympic distance triathlon nationals. Essentially, I am asthma-free without gluten, and I intend to stay that way, because breathing through a straw while scratching myself raw is no way to live life.

]]> By: Allergy Guy http://www.allergy-details.com/gluten-allergy-c/gluten-allergy-asthma/comment-page-1/#comment-23143 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 23:28:10 +0000 http://www.allergy-details.com/?p=2193#comment-23143 In reply to Karin.

Thanks for your story, Karin. It does sound like a strong connection, that you need both gluten and either juniper or cedar to trigger asthma.
Do you find sticking to a gluten free diet to be difficult?

]]> By: Karin http://www.allergy-details.com/gluten-allergy-c/gluten-allergy-asthma/comment-page-1/#comment-23140 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 19:55:08 +0000 http://www.allergy-details.com/?p=2193#comment-23140 I know I have an environmental allergy to Juniper/ Cedar. Two years ago when I hit this allergen season I needed a steriod shot to get asthma and other symptoms under control. Last year I was on a gluten-free diet and had no symptoms at all from the Juniper/ Cedar season. This year, I’m off the diet and the allergy symptoms returned with avengeance. So it seems like gluten in concert with the environmental allergen is the issue for me.

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