i do not mean a wheat ALLERGY… i mean an INTOLERANCE… not where your throat closes up and you cant breathe or you get hives… but where you get abdominal pain and diarrhea… i have been tested for celiac disease and the tests came out negative. but whenever i ate gluten i didn’t feel well… but i decided to test how i feel when i just don’t eat wheat and eat other things that do contain gluten (such as in oats and barley..) It has been 2 weeks now and i feel fine. but i am wondering if maybe that’s just because i am not eating a lot of gluten… or if it’s because i only have a wheat intolerance (but i’m not sure if there is even a such thing as just a wheat intolerance).
Hi, you can be gluten intolerant without being a full blown celiac. Gluten intolerance is more of a spectrum rather than an all or nothing thing. My bro. is a non-celiac, non-allergic gluten intolerant as is my sister. I am a celiac though. (Great gene pool, huh? lol!)
If you are intolerant of wheat, then it is most likely the protein (gluten) that you are reacting to, and as we all know, that particular protein is also in the other gluten containing grains, so it is best just to steer clear of all of them for the sake of your health.
If you feel better staying gluten free, then listen to your body and stay gluten free, it just isn’t worth feeling like crap in order to eat something that you can really work around or do without…
Hope you figure this out though…
here is a link which might explain it:
http://www.foodintol.com/wheat.asp