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I was stupid yesterday and I paid the price.
I was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2008. For decades prior I was misdiagnosed which left me in excruciating pain and many visits to the emergency room.
A celiac attack is unmistakably a celiac attack. I understood that almost as quickly as I went to a gluten free diet. I have to avoid wheat, barley and rye. There are other products like malt that contain gluten. Now they are saying possibly oats.
Foods producers have to register and undergo stringent processing tests before they can legally label their products as gluten free. Gluten must not exceede 20 parts per million. It's expensive to put GF on your product. As such it's not unusual that I might pay $7 to $9 for a loaf of bread.
Point of interest: A celiac attack can be triggered on as little a 2 parts per million.
I have to read ingredients on every eatable I buy, including medications. There are a lot of products that don't contain wheat/gluten but do not have the gluten free designation, so they don't cost as much. By law they have to have an allergy warning. The most common are "may contain traces of wheat" or "processed on machinery that also processes wheat".
I usually avoid anything that mentions wheat on the package. But you know... it's just a formality in a lot of cases. The product can still be completely gluten free. Often it isn't much of a risk, as long as there are no gluten elements in the ingredient list.
So, I'm having a difficult time finding a granola cereal. Lots of them are gluten free. They cost quite a lot, but my gripe is they ALWAYS have cinnamon, or maple, or some other stupid flavor that if I wanted it it would be easy enough to add.
I just want grains. Just grains. You know... grainola.
So I find one. Great Value brand. The ingredients were okay. It was like, $3. GREAT! For once I don't have to pay out the ass because of my health issues. At the bottom; may contain traces of wheat.
Pfffff, it's just that rubber stamp legal disclaimer.
So about 3 AM I'm brought awake with that old familiar pain in my guts. I writhed for over an hour. It finally eased up, but my nights sleep was out the window.
That's maybe the third serious attack I've had in the decade plus of my diagnosis. Cealiac disease is an autoimmune disorder where gluten triggers an autoimmune response as if it were an invading infection. But the response doesn't stop and it literally eats your digestive tract. More specifically, the lining of the small intestine. This results in a deficiency to absorb nutrients.
The damage heals in time. But what harm does it cause meanwhile.
I recommend everyone take a month off from gluten at least once. Be strict about it. You will know soon enough if you are one of the world's 50 million people that don't know they have celiac disease.
Public service message: https://celiac.org/
I was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2008. For decades prior I was misdiagnosed which left me in excruciating pain and many visits to the emergency room.
A celiac attack is unmistakably a celiac attack. I understood that almost as quickly as I went to a gluten free diet. I have to avoid wheat, barley and rye. There are other products like malt that contain gluten. Now they are saying possibly oats.
Foods producers have to register and undergo stringent processing tests before they can legally label their products as gluten free. Gluten must not exceede 20 parts per million. It's expensive to put GF on your product. As such it's not unusual that I might pay $7 to $9 for a loaf of bread.
Point of interest: A celiac attack can be triggered on as little a 2 parts per million.
I have to read ingredients on every eatable I buy, including medications. There are a lot of products that don't contain wheat/gluten but do not have the gluten free designation, so they don't cost as much. By law they have to have an allergy warning. The most common are "may contain traces of wheat" or "processed on machinery that also processes wheat".
I usually avoid anything that mentions wheat on the package. But you know... it's just a formality in a lot of cases. The product can still be completely gluten free. Often it isn't much of a risk, as long as there are no gluten elements in the ingredient list.
So, I'm having a difficult time finding a granola cereal. Lots of them are gluten free. They cost quite a lot, but my gripe is they ALWAYS have cinnamon, or maple, or some other stupid flavor that if I wanted it it would be easy enough to add.
I just want grains. Just grains. You know... grainola.
So I find one. Great Value brand. The ingredients were okay. It was like, $3. GREAT! For once I don't have to pay out the ass because of my health issues. At the bottom; may contain traces of wheat.
Pfffff, it's just that rubber stamp legal disclaimer.
So about 3 AM I'm brought awake with that old familiar pain in my guts. I writhed for over an hour. It finally eased up, but my nights sleep was out the window.
That's maybe the third serious attack I've had in the decade plus of my diagnosis. Cealiac disease is an autoimmune disorder where gluten triggers an autoimmune response as if it were an invading infection. But the response doesn't stop and it literally eats your digestive tract. More specifically, the lining of the small intestine. This results in a deficiency to absorb nutrients.
The damage heals in time. But what harm does it cause meanwhile.
I recommend everyone take a month off from gluten at least once. Be strict about it. You will know soon enough if you are one of the world's 50 million people that don't know they have celiac disease.
Public service message: https://celiac.org/
20 Things You Might Not Know About Celiac Disease
Last Updated: January 13, 2022- Celiac disease is a chronic autoimmune disease, which means that you cannot “grow out” of it.
- 1 in 100 people worldwide have celiac disease.
- Celiac disease affects an estimated three million Americans.
- Approximately 60-70% of Americans with celiac disease are not diagnosed and are needlessly suffering.
- People with a first degree relative with celiac disease have a 1 in 10 chance of developing celiac disease themselves.
- More children have celiac disease than Crohn’s, Ulcerative Colitis, and Cystic Fibrosis combined.
- Celiac disease can affect every organ in your body.
- Lifelong adherence to the gluten-free diet is the only treatment for celiac disease.
- Approximately 50% of diagnosed patients still report symptoms while on a gluten-free diet.
- There is an average delay of 6-10 years for an accurate celiac disease diagnosis.
- Without a timely diagnosis, celiac disease can lead to intestinal cancers, type 1 diabetes, osteoporosis, thyroid disease, multiple sclerosis, anemia, infertility and miscarriage, epilepsy, and more.
- There are more than 200 symptoms associated with celiac disease.
- Many people with celiac disease are asymptomatic, meaning they don’t experience any external symptoms at all. However, everyone with celiac disease is still at risk for long-term complications.
- Celiac disease can develop at any age after people start eating foods or medications that contain gluten.
- The later the age of celiac disease diagnosis, the greater the chance of developing another autoimmune disorder.
- There are two steps to being diagnosed with celiac disease: the blood test and the endoscopy.
- People with celiac disease have an increased incidence of microscopic colitis and inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis).
- People with celiac disease may have lactose and/or fructose intolerance, both of which can be diagnosed by a hydrogen breath test.
- People recently diagnosed with celiac disease are commonly deficient in fiber, iron, calcium, magnesium, zinc, folate, niacin, riboflavin, vitamin B12, and vitamin D.
- Any food product that is labeled “gluten-free” cannot contain more than 20 parts per million of gluten, which is the safe threshold of gluten consumption for people with celiac disease.
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