If you have a gluten allergy, you need to check what’s in your medication.
In one way, this is no different from checking the ingredients in food, except that we often forget that not-food items such as medications may also contain gluten.
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If your gluten allergy has you reaching for candy as source of comfort and gluten-free energy while you figure out what you can eat, be very careful!
Most candy is gluten-free, but this can lead to complacency, exposing you to gluten poisoning yet again.
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Dust allergies are common, leading to skin reactions in most cases. For example, you have get hives or eczema.
It can also trigger an asthmatic attack if you have asthma. This does not mean that dust causes asthma, only that it triggers a reaction for asthmatic patients.
There are other, more subtle symptoms of dust exposure. They are allergic reactions, but not with the classic reactions. A general lack of energy and focus might be attributed to a dust allergy.
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Dust, the kind people are allergic to, is different from the dictionary definition of dust. This is important if you are asthmatic, or have a dust allergy.
Really, we are talking about house dust. Especially bad if you have asthma or are allergic to dust, house dust really isn’t healthy for anybody. You’ll see why as you continue to read.
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Gluten allergy avoidance means sticking to safe foods. Some foods are always safe. What about potato chips?
This seems like a silly question. Of course potato chips are gluten free! Or are they?
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Gluten allergy can be confused with celiac disease and gluten sensitivity.
They are somewhat related.
According to the purist definition of an allergy, a gluten allergy is very rare.
If you take a broader view, it is more common than you might suppose.
There are reasons for understanding the difference between gluten allergy and celiac disease, and we’ll go into them in this article.
The end result is the same though: you must go on a gluten free diet to avoid symptoms.
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Arthritis is generally thought of as “painful joints”. The connection between a gluten free diet and the reduction of arthritis is very interesting.
While a gluten free diet does not help everybody with all types of arthritis, it is certainly the magic bullet for many, if only they knew it.
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Osteomalacia can be reversed with a gluten free diet in some cases.
Osteomalacia is caused by a vitamin D deficiency, but what is causing the lack of vitamin D? Depending on the cause of the vitamin D shortage, cutting gluten from your diet may solve the problem.
We’ll take a look at what osteomalacia is, then how a gluten free diet may help.
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Osteoporosis has many causes. A frequently overlooked solution is going on a gluten free diet, although this only applies to those with celiac disease.
This may seem to apply to just a small group of the population, until you look at the numbers. In fact, it applies to a significant majority of people suffering from osteoporosis.
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Ataxia is a loss of muscle coordination. When the several known causes for ataxia come up negative, look try a gluten-free diet.
There are several known causes of ataxia which is what doctors most commonly look for. If these tests come up negative, the doctor labels the conditions “idiopathic ataxia.” This simply means that the doctor doesn’t have a bloody clue what’s causing the problem. Rather than admit this, they blame it on the condition by calling it “idiopathic.”
If you find yourself diagnosed with idiopathic ataxia, there is one more thing you can try, and you can try it without your doctor’s help.
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