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Corn Allergy

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About a year ago I realized in addition to having celiac whenever i ate corn I became very ill. The symptoms were very similar to having gluten. I have since cut all corn out of my diet and feel so much better. For the past 9 months or so I have had very bad eczema on my hands (which I never had in all my life - anywhere). The doctors think that the eczema is caused from an allergic reaction to something. What I don't know?  I have come to realize that the perfume I had been using is corn based. Has anyone had experience of a topical product causing such issues? Now that I know this I am going to stop using the perfume. Any thoughts or suggestions for new gluten and corn perfumes?  I am so tired of having to give up everything that I love!!

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Can you post pictures of your eczema? I ask because I had a rash on my hands that turned out to be palmo-plantar pustular psoriasis. When it is in the healing stage it looks like eczema but when it starts it looks like little greenish whitehead pimples. Corn made it even worse than gluten did. (Soy caused problems too.) Now that I have been gluten-free for almost four years I have been able to add corn and soy back to my diet (although I don't eat a lot of eather because they are GMO) and the psoriasis is gone.

 

I can't help with the perfume thing because I don't use it. I have asthma and react very badly if someone with perfume even walks into the room. That makes me prejudiced. Just as I wish no one cooked with gluten, I wish no one wore perfume. The only difference for me is that gluten will kill me slowly and perfume could kill me right now.

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Can you post pictures of your eczema? I ask because I had a rash on my hands that turned out to be palmo-plantar pustular psoriasis. When it is in the healing stage it looks like eczema but when it starts it looks like little greenish whitehead pimples. Corn made it even worse than gluten did. (Soy caused problems too.) Now that I have been gluten-free for almost four years I have been able to add corn and soy back to my diet (although I don't eat a lot of eather because they are GMO) and the psoriasis is gone.

 

I can't help with the perfume thing because I don't use it. I have asthma and react very badly if someone with perfume even walks into the room. That makes me prejudiced. Just as I wish no one cooked with gluten, I wish no one wore perfume. The only difference for me is that gluten will kill me slowly and perfume could kill me right now.T

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Thank you for help - it did start out looking like pimples - or spider bites - not green at all. I am going to try to cut out all the corn - i am still eating the bagged salad which I understand is rinsed in a corn wash.  Does anyone know if the vegetables that you get in the bag that are microwavable are rinsed in the same corn wash?

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Here is a picture from the web. The pustules aren't VERY green, more white with a slight greenish tinge, although mine have also had a yellowish tinge. These pictures are obviously of feet, but feet get this too. Actually even though my hands have been clear for a long time, I still have some on my feet. It's a lot better than it used to be though - there was a time when I could barely walk without pain.

 

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I'm not sure about microwavable veggies in the bag but I KNOW bagged salads are washed with that corn based veggie wash so I wouldn't be surprised if the micro veggies are too.

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