Gluten allergy \u2013 how do I know if I have one?\u00a0 There are a few clues, but some of them are misleading. Pay close attention to this!<\/p>\n
First, we have to look at possible gluten allergy symptoms, and what they can be confused with.\u00a0 We also have to differentiate with a more serious condition triggered by eating gluten<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Most people suffer the symptoms of a gluten allergy for quite some time before realizing that the cause is a gluten allergy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Watch out for the following symptoms:<\/p>\n For more complete information, see the list of articles at the bottom of this one.<\/p>\n The problem with diagnosing the cause of these symptoms<\/a> is that they could be caused by almost anything, including other food allergies<\/a>, environmental allergies, other types of disease, depression, inability to digest milk<\/a> \u2026 just to name a few.<\/p>\n While it is possible to get tests for a gluten allergy<\/a>, they are not all that accurate.\u00a0 They may provide false positives or false negatives, meaning they may say you have a gluten allergy when you don\u2019t, or say you don\u2019t when you do.<\/p>\n If you suspect a gluten allergy, the best test is to go on a gluten free diet<\/a>, and see if the symptoms go away.<\/p>\n If your symptoms go away when you go on a gluten free diet for a month or two, does that mean you have a gluten allergy?<\/p>\n Not necessarily.\u00a0 You could have celiac disease<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n Celiac disease is treated the same way as a gluten allergy \u2013 by eliminating all gluten from your diet.<\/p>\n The difference is that with a gluten allergy, you can decide if avoiding gluten is worth the trouble, based on how much the symptoms annoy you.<\/p>\n With celiac disease, there are long-term and initially hidden effects that can completely ruin your health, even cause terminal disease, if you do not maintain a strict gluten free diet.<\/p>\n For this reason, it is much more important that you get tested for celiac disease than for a gluten allergy.<\/p>\n Before undertaking the gluten challenge, you must be tested for celiac disease.\u00a0 A celiac test will not be accurate if you have not been eating gluten, and as explained above, it is important to know, unless you have the self-discipline to avoid gluten, even if small amounts don’t seem to bother you.<\/p>\n If you suspect that gluten is affecting your health in any way, the first thing you can do is go on a gluten free diet for at least 8 weeks.<\/p>\n If many or most of your symptoms either go away or become consistently less, get tested for celiac disease.<\/p>\n If that test is negative, you can decide to what extent a gluten free diet is worth following to avoid your gluten allergy symptoms.<\/p>\n Gluten allergy \u2013 how do I know if I have one? There are a few clues, but some of them are misleading. Pay close attention to this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Gluten Allergy Symptoms<\/h2>\n
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Celiac Disease \u2013 Worse Than a Gluten Allergy<\/h2>\n
Gluten Fee Diet Challenge<\/h2>\n
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