Gluten Intolerance and Wheat Intolerance

Gluten is the general name for the storage of proteins found in wheat, oats, rye, and barley. It is the substance that gives the rubber, elastic texture in bread.  It helps glue the bread and cakes together so they don't crumble.

There is an amazing variety of reactions that occur to gluten, but conventionally trained doctors only recognise coeliac disease, the most serious type. Coeliac disease is an autoimmune-type reaction in which the body reacts so strongly to gluten that it causes malabsorption of nutrients. It is possible to experience Coeliac Disease symptoms but test negative for Coeliac Disease.

Possible Symptoms Of Gluten Intolerance

More commonly, symptoms that can be the result of food intolerances (allergy type 3) include:

• bloating and gas
• abdominal pain
• constipation
• indigestion
• stomach cramps
• fatigue or
• unexplained headaches

When you have wheat or gluten intolerance, your immune system is hypersensitive to one of the proteins in wheat or gluten so your system reacts against the protein.

The symptoms of wheat-gluten allergy are not the same for everyone; they vary between individuals and can begin a few minutes after eating a wheat-gluten product, or it can take several hours for symptoms to appear.

The most common factor and most recognizable symptom among patients is there is an impaired ability to digest wheat or gluten products that can lead to gastro-intestinal, dermatologic, or respiratory symptoms.

When we continually eat the same types of food eg. wheat or gluten products, our body can build up a resistance and when it reaches a threshold the result is in the form of physical symptoms such as those described above.

Take a Food Intolerance Test or Contact Us to discuss your testing options.