April 22, 2008
Another gut episode, and sick afterwards
Posted by Shreela under Gluten-free | Tags: gluten allergy |Since I self-diagnosed myself as having a problem with gluten after doing an elimination diet, I’ve had only a few gut episodes. Most were from my thinking I could eat just a little wheat, until I read that once a gluten-sensitive person stopped wheat they most likely would suffer from hyper-sensitivity if they ate it again. Once I figured that out, I bought non-gluten flour, baking mix, and pasta from the health food store, and the episodes dropped almost completely.
But I did suffer from an episode about a month ago after eating frozen peas with butter. I checked the package, and it only had peas listed. I also looked up the manufacturer’s website, and it stated their vegetables were gluten-free. I figured that I might have made a condiment mistake the day before (there’s hidden gluten in lots of condiments).
I made split pea soup the other day, and had another gut episode all day yesterday. I finally fell asleep after it settled a little, but I woke up feeling like I was fighting off an infection in my throat. I had brain fog, and achy neck and shoulder muscles, but was only slightly warm. I made meatloaf I had put up a few months back, got my husband to peel potatoes, and steamed some frozen broccoli, carrots, and cauliflower mix, then took ibuprofen 800mg, and Tylenol. I feel better, but still puny.
But two times with the peas? That’s not a coincident any more. I did a little search for cross allergies between peas and gluten, but didn’t find anything. I won’t be making peas again though.
April 28, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Hi “Other Sherri”! That is very weird about peas. You should ask Bix about it, see if anyone else has had a similar experience.
April 29, 2008 at 7:10 am
Good idea Melinda, even if Bix hasn’t heard about something herself, she’s really good at digging up stuff, and so are her readers. Thanks!
May 7, 2008 at 8:04 am
Your gut may be damaged from eating a gluten filled diet and will take a while to repair itself. During this period, you can find you are sensitive to lots of different foods due to the way your gut protects itself from inflammation. The enzymes you use to digest fats and carbohydrates can be lacking and therefore you should eat easily digested carbs and not too much fat in any one sitting.
Difficult carbs include, peas, beans, peanuts, cabbage family, corn, flours made from grasses (buckwheat, amaranth, sorghum), chestnut flour and highly fibrous foods like coconut, flax, chia seeds and other seeds (sunflower, pumpkin).
Try simplifying your diet until things calm down, eat some protein at every meal, don’t eat too much raw veg - steam or roast it, stick to yoghurt if you want to have dairy, as it’s predigested, only eat nuts ground or as nut butter and avoid the difficult to digest grains. When your gut has healed itself you can start introducing things and see how you get on.
The reason you are losing weight is most likely to do with malabsorption. A little adjustment is fine, but not if you get underweight.
Hope that helps?
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