Six signs you might have gluten sensitivity and not know it

Six signs you might have gluten sensitivity and not know it

(NaturalNews) Recognition of gluten sensitivity and the consequence of
Celiac Disease if that sensitivity is ignored is not so easy to
determine early. Medical tests fail often enough, turning up negative
while people who are gluten intolerant continue to suffer a plethora of
symptoms.

Those people are often told it's all in their heads
after testing shows up negative. But traditional gluten intolerance
blood testing looks for only one of six polypeptides in wheat, gliadin.

There
are five others: wheat germ agglutinin, glteomorphin, gltueinin,
prodynorphin, and omega gliadin. Any one or a combination of these five
can cause anyone to have reactions to wheat.

Symptoms alone can
be attributed to several other issues. Even gluten intolerant or Celiac
Disease sufferers will manifest a variety of different symptoms. It's
rather complex.

This article will list six common symptoms and
then advise on how to make sure you are or are not glucose intolerant
after spotting symptoms that are all too familiar to you.

Sometimes
these symptoms appear right after meals and don't last long. In other
cases, the symptoms can last for weeks or even chronically, which then
often leads to a diagnoses of an autoimmune disease instead of gluten
intolerance.

Six common symptoms of gluten intolerance

(1)
Obviously, there are gastrointestinal (GI), stomach, and digestive
problems. These can include one or some of the following: Gas, bloating,
queasiness, abdominal cramping, constipation, diarrhea, or an
alternating combination of both - IBS (IrritableBowel Syndrome).

(2) Headaches and/or migraines.

(3)
Fibromyalgia is not a disease, it's a syndrome. Getting a medical
diagnoses is bogus. You don't need to be told you have muscular and
connecting tissue aches and pains. That's what fibromyalgia means.
Fibro= Connective Tissue; Myo= Muscle; Algia= Pain. Thus fibromyalgia.

(4) Emotional issues involving chronic irritability and sudden, irrational mood shifts.

(5)
Neurological issues, including dizziness, difficulty balancing, and
peripheral neuropathy affecting nerves outside the central nervous
system and resulting in pain, weakness, tingling or numbness in the
extremities.

(6) Fatigue, whether chronic or almost after
every meal. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is, like fibromyalgia, a
syndrome, not a disease. If that's what you're diagnosed with, it means
your doctor can't locate the cause of your fatigue.

Yes, all of these symptoms are common to other health issues and diseases. That's why symptoms alone as a diagnoses is perplexing.

How to make a final decision

First,
list every single symptom that nags you, whether sporadic or chronic.
Don't make assumptions, like my back problems are from sitting too much.
Just list them without trying to explain them away.

Then, go on a gluten-free diet for 60 days. If you feel you can't, that may already indicate you're addicted to gluten. We are often addicted to things we're allergic to.

That
gluten-free diet would include wheat, rye, barley, spelt, kamut, oats,
and triticale which are grains with gluten. Quinoa, buckwheat, and
sorghum grains are gluten-free. So is rice.

Packaged foods have
different ways of sneaking in gluten. Read those labels carefully.
Here's a reference site and source for all foods (http://www.celiac.com/). This can be simplified by ignoring processed foods, sauces, and salad dressings and preparing meals from bulk items.

After
the 60-day period, go over your notes and see how many of your symptoms
remain. If they are mostly gone, you might decide to stick with your
gluten free diet. If you're uncertain, go back to your former diet to
see if those symptoms come back with a vengeance.

After a six
month gluten-free period, it may be possible to gradually incorporate
some of the foods you've abandoned without consequences.

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