Gluten allergy, wheat allergy and wheat lectin intolerance can easily be confused. <\/p>\n
A gluten allergy<\/a> is the body’s immune response to proteins in gluten. Gluten should be harmless to the body, or so one would think. This is not always the case, as I will explain later in this article. <\/p>\n Some people’s bodies decide that gluten proteins are a foreign invader and this triggers an immune response, leading to an allergic reaction. <\/p>\n An intolerance to wheat lectin is a different matter, and it is far more common than you might think.<\/p>\n Anyone with type O blood can not tolerate wheat lectin. It causes the blood to clump together, which is a bad start. Then the immune system attacks the clump, including blood cells and lectin, in an attempt to get rid of it.<\/p>\n This sounds very similar to an allergic response to wheat proteins. Where there is wheat, there is gluten, so it is possible to confuse the two situations.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re blood is type O, you should avoid wheat as much as possible, although gluten is not necessarily a problem. It may be, and of course if you are celiac<\/a> you must avoid gluten anyhow, which includes wheat.<\/p>\n But for those people with type O blood and who are neither celiac nor allergic to gluten, wheat is still a problem.<\/p>\n