Reaction To Oats?

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I haven't been able to get conclusively diagnosed with Coeliacs but I believe it is what permanently trashed my pancreas and lead to other immune disorders. Milk proteins cause strictures from my soft palate to my nethers. My gene type is dq7 0301 which has only recently been linked to gluten intolerance which tends not to show in the blood test but can show in the biopsy, however gastros wrote it off as IBS and a different biopsy for IBD triggered a nasty autoimmune dermatitis.

I am studying herbal medicine and one of the tinctures we had to sample was oat. I am going to have to use it again to be sure but I put the full strength oat tincture on my hand and licked it. My hand broke out in what looked like a first degree burn with blisters and my tongue cracked. I felt really spaced out briefly later on and my guts were sore. If that was wheat I would get nasty pain and vomiting and it would take a month to recover. This suggests to me that it is not the pancreatic enzyme deficiency that causes the intolerance but a total lack of recognition of certain peptides, probably mistaken for the infections I keep getting. I am hoping to discover some way to desensitize. I wonder if anyone has tried a gluten peptide based homeopathic remedy? Sometimes when a very small particle is seen in context with the bigger picture, there is a desensitization, but that is a very risky experiment. I have done a bit of research, and the genetic alteration of wheat to contain more gluten is a major contributor to the current incidence of autoimmune diseases.

[KaitiUSA]

Oats has gluten in it. In the U.S the oats are contaminated with wheat. Even if the oats are uncontaminated there is a percentage of people who react to the protein in oats called avenin.

[Carriefaith]

People with celiac disease cannot tolerate wheat, barley, rye, and oats. Like Kaiti said, almost all oats are contaminated with wheat. There is a controversy about the safety of pure uncontaminated oats for people with celiac disease. Some people have had villi damage from pure uncontaminated oats because the protein is very similar to gluten and other people have had no damage.