Difference Between Gluten And Wheat Allergy?

[rebeckalyn79]

Hello, I posted earlier about my lil guy having a possible Gluten related allergy. Can anyone tell me the difference between Gluten allergy and Wheat allergy?

Symptoms?

And what the different ingrediants?

Im just wondering because my son isnt thin at all. He is tall and average. Not under weight or overweight.

Thanks for any info. I get so confused from trying to find info online between the two.

[Ursa Major]

Gluten intolerance is not an allergy, but an immune reaction. And if your son doesn't have extensive damage to his small intestine YET, he would still grow normally and not necessarily be too thin, either.

A wheat allergy is a histamine reaction to wheat (and you can have both, some people here do).

The grains containing gluten are wheat, rye and barley.

[rebeckalyn79]

Gluten intolerance is not an allergy, but an immune reaction. And if your son doesn't have extensive damage to his small intestine YET, he would still grow normally and not necessarily be too thin, either.

A wheat allergy is a histamine reaction to wheat (and you can have both, some people here do).

The grains containing gluten are wheat, rye and barley.

Ahhhh, okay! Thanks for the answer. All the info is leaving me a little confused

[Tim-n-VA]

It is confusing since these terms aren't used consistently. One website says that an intolerance in a digestive system reaction, on this site many use intolerance as a general term that means "it bothers me" whether the underlying mechanism is allergy, celiac (auto-immune) or some other response while for others gluten intolerance = celiac.

Still, the bottom line is that you avoid eating the offending foods. It is sometime helpful to know which mechanism is the problem to alert you to other diseases in the same family.