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Swollen Hands And Feet

WendyG

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Hi, I have been very strict with my gluten free diet since Jan 28th. Lately I am having terribly swollen feet and hands. Is this related to Celiac or just too much salt? Anyone else every experience anything similar?

Thanks,

Wendy

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Hi, I have been very strict with my gluten free diet since Jan 28th. Lately I am having terribly swollen feet and hands. Is this related to Celiac or just too much salt? Anyone else every experience anything similar?

Thanks,

Wendy

I have this problem when the weather gets hot. My solution is to drink more water, walk as much as possible, and elevate my feet at night. As I only have the problem in hot weather, I'm not sure whether I should blame salt or gluten. Or the weather! :rolleyes:

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Are you having other issues? For me this would be gluten related but it would not be the only symptom. It would be accompanied by joint and muscle pain, a migraine, DH breakout and tummy upset a few days later if it was gluten.

Like the previous poster I also do get swollen hands in the hot weather but when that occurs I don't have any of the other issues.

If both hands and feet are noticeablly swollen and you do not have any other symptoms of a glutening and it does not resolve soon you may want to run it by your doctor to be on the safe side. There can be many causes of edema and some of us have kidneys impacted by celiac so do check it out if it does not resolve by cutting your salt and increasing water intake..

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