Hives After Giving Up Gluten

[amethyst108]

Hi All,

I recently found out that I am gluten and dairy intolerant about four weeks ago. I have kept off both ever since and have been feeling better and better. My joints have stopped aching, my concentration is wonderful and I can actually run up and down the stairs. However two days after I began feelling better than I have in years and years, I began to get hives on the upper part of my body. I suspect that it is a healing crisis - as I would always itch when I ate too much gluten - and come out in eczema patches. I still feel pretty good in myself - but just wondered if anyone else had experienced this.

Best - amethsyt108

[mushroom]

I developed hives and intense itching and rash after going gluten-free. It turned out to be coming from soy; if you substitute gluten-free food for gluten you may find that most of them put soy in when they take gluten out. Or it could be an intolerance of some other food; often these show up when we eliminate gluten. Try eliminating most allergens, i.e., corn, soy, eggs, nuts, nightshades, for example, and then adding them back in one at a time every 2-3 days and see if you can find the culprit. Good luck in your sleuthing.

[amethyst108]

Hi Mushroom,

Thanks for your helpful reply. I realized that I had started take fish oil capsules the week before and it was shortly after this that the hives appeared. I do have a problem with gelatin and soy, eggs, corn and potatoes, + tuna and trout - so there could have been a variety of fish oils in the gelatin capsule I think. It was fish gelatin which I thought wouldn't matter - but somehow the combination didn't work.

They are fading but still itch and currently migrating around my body. So far they haven't reached my face thank god!

Thanks for your help.

All the best - Amethyst108