Known Food Allergy And Now More?

[MsShonnaLeigh]

I'm a 23 yo mother to a beautiful, 6 month old, baby girl. I've always been hefty, I'm over 200 lbs and 5' 6". I've always had a rough allergy to barley since I was an infant, bloating, nausea, vomiting and foul stool came from eating anything with barley in it. I do have allergies to strawberries, cedar and traditional season allergies. I'm very careful not ingest anything I'm allergic too or be around it since my reactions are very uncomfortable and sudden.

After I had my daughter, I ate some bread I didn't know had barely in it. I have a fairly good home life and go to school full time and work part time, but I've always eaten healthy thru my life. I noticed that on top of some bloating and stomach pain, I felt really down and more tired than normal. It was my first encounter with barley since my daughters birth. I had lost over 40 pounds after her birth, getting back on the scale, I gained back 15 with only a little slack in my normal diet.

I was still eating breads and pastas, whole wheat. I noticed I felt more bloated, tired, irritable and even started to get nauseous. A co-worker mentioned Celiac Disease because her son has it, she asked me my symptoms and said I should really look into it.

I know I have a food allergy, but decided to try a Gluten Free diet to see if there was anything improvement. My stools went loose and yellow for several days and the bloating went so far down, my tummy was flatter than before I got pregnant. I thought it was a GI bug that went around in my family a few weeks before. But I've stuck with the gluten free so far for just over a week now. I'm much happier, full of energy, less tired after an activity, my stomach isn't bloated up. My pants fit looser below the waist as well, I've even noticed my legs look thinner and my face isn't as p%$#@# looking.

Do you think Celiac Disease was the culprit? I want to know more about this before I go rambling off to a doctor to be referred for testing.

[mushroom]

I'm a 23 yo mother to a beautiful, 6 month old, baby girl. I've always been hefty, I'm over 200 lbs and 5' 6". I've always had a rough allergy to barley since I was an infant, bloating, nausea, vomiting and foul stool came from eating anything with barley in it. I do have allergies to strawberries, cedar and traditional season allergies. I'm very careful not ingest anything I'm allergic too or be around it since my reactions are very uncomfortable and sudden.

After I had my daughter, I ate some bread I didn't know had barely in it. I have a fairly good home life and go to school full time and work part time, but I've always eaten healthy thru my life. I noticed that on top of some bloating and stomach pain, I felt really down and more tired than normal. It was my first encounter with barley since my daughters birth. I had lost over 40 pounds after her birth, getting back on the scale, I gained back 15 with only a little slack in my normal diet.

I was still eating breads and pastas, whole wheat. I noticed I felt more bloated, tired, irritable and even started to get nauseous. A co-worker mentioned Celiac Disease because her son has it, she asked me my symptoms and said I should really look into it.

I know I have a food allergy, but decided to try a Gluten Free diet to see if there was anything improvement. My stools went loose and yellow for several days and the bloating went so far down, my tummy was flatter than before I got pregnant. I thought it was a GI bug that went around in my family a few weeks before. But I've stuck with the gluten free so far for just over a week now. I'm much happier, full of energy, less tired after an activity, my stomach isn't bloated up. My pants fit looser below the waist as well, I've even noticed my legs look thinner and my face isn't as p%$#@# looking.

Do you think Celiac Disease was the culprit? I want to know more about this before I go rambling off to a doctor to be referred for testing.

The short answer is, it sounds incredibly likely to me. Get in for testing before you heal too much so that your testing comes out negative, if testing is the course you choose, and you may want to do this because of your children who can inherit this from you. They can test both you and your children for the genetic inheritance that allows celiac to be triggered. Doctors are ofen reluctant to test children without a parental diagnosis. You should resume eating gluten until you are tested for an accurate result. But with your positive dietary response I think you probably already know the answer.