Streaming Nose

[loubyloo]

Ok, so still waiting on my GI doctor appt - next week. My GP put me on gluten free diet as i thought i had identified gluten as the cause of the diarrhoea and the fast worsening symptoms resulting in being awake all night crying in agony with the stomach pains and running to the loo (like food poisoning basically, except not!)

On the diet the diarrhoea totally stopped and the pain vanished along with the severe bloating. Good signs. After 3 weeks i started worrying i was wrong as i haven;t heard anything about my celiac panel results (which normally means your tests are negative) so i got careless and then started almost binging on gluten foods just now and then. Nothing happened. Now though the diarrhoes is back for 2 days running following a definite gluten load. Makes me think again.

However this is not my real question.....i've been suffering from a streaming nose - just clear mucous, constantly streaming. I hadn't realised that it'd completely gone until now, its back!! I haven't changed my lactose intake which i know can cause mucous problems but i just wondered if anyone else had experienced this?

Thanks

[Laennie]

Can't really comment on the mucus issue.

However, your GI symptoms sound just like mine were. I've been on the diet 18 days now & my D & most of the other GI problems went away. I got my test results last Friday night, it was negative. With such a high false negative rate I said I wasn't going to let that stop me if I was feeling better but I started doubting myself. I was also not feeling very well & had no idea why. I finally realized I had cross contaminated myself. After that my resolve got stronger. If you ate gluten & started to have negative symptoms after 3 weeks of not having those being gluten free. I think you have your answer in that no matter what the tests say, you need to avoid gluten.

[Skylark]

If I get glutened I sometimes wake up the next morning with sinus pain, sneezing, and often with a runny nose.

[WheatChef]

Gluten issues often come with food allergies as well. Gluten can cause a change in the permeability of your intestinal lining meaning your system gets exposed to more complex proteins than it normally would be, thus eliciting allergic responses.

[wheeleezdryver]

i haven't figured out all my intolerances and all that jazz yet, and i know this might sound weird, but it seems to me that whenever i eat brown rice (from what i understand based on a very little bit of research, brown rice has fructose in it), i get Post Nasal Drip a few hours later.... and the days i don't eat any brown rice, i'm fine. (will be eliminating it, and the other fructans (actually, already taken most of them out of my diet as far as i know... just not the brown rice, yet- got in the habit of buying it long before i went gluten-free, as it's 'healthier' than white rice (but not if it gives me problems!) for a while after Thanksgiving)