I’m glad to hear your gluten-free diet is helping you.
I strongly recommend you cut out oats as well, and see what happens.
Let me know how it goes.
Mean while, I’ll see if I can find some products that might help you.
]]>I went on a gluten free diet several months ago and my IBS symptoms – gas, bloating, cramping, “urgency” that was pretty much ongoing all the time and keeping me up at night — pretty much went away. However, I have been eating gluten free oatmeal in the morning. I do still feel lethargic, but I also have a problem with waking up in the middle of the night and not falling back to sleep. I don’t think it’s related to the gluten in my diet. Now I need to tackle that problem, maybe through hynpotherapy… Any thoughts? By the way I have experimented with introducing gluten back into my diet and my other symptoms seem to gradually return over a period of days when I do so – not immediately.
]]>Hi Laurie,
There are a few possible causes:
1) You’re allergic to oats
2) Oat gluten triggers your allergies
3) The oats were contaminated with wheat, barley or rye
4) Something else caused the symptoms, unconnected to oats.
Probably you’re better off avoiding oats, unfortunately.
Good luck with your gluten-free diet.
]]>My eating oats as breakfast oatmeal for the past week seems coincident to return of some symptoms– lethargy, itchy skin (break out), swollen fingers, stuffy sinus…. My diet had been gluten free–no wheat, rye, barley– or oats for more than 1 yr. These oats were “processed in a plant that used good manufacturing techniques– to avoid contact with wheat/barley/rye”.
]]>Something not covered in this article: oats and $gluten-allergy$, as opposed to celiac.
If you are allergic to gluten, can you eat oats?
It really depends. If your gluten allergy is an annoyance, and you can live with the consequences, try eating oats and see what happens.
If your gluten allergy is more serious, or you simply don’t want to live with the consequences, you may be better off avoiding oats.
I think that in the case of a gluten allergy, it is more of a personal choice, where as with celiac, you are strongly advised to avoid all oats.
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