Question:
my wife has been informed that she is allergic to wheat, can
anyone give any links.
Answer:
Just typing in "wheat allergy" in Google gives you over 200.000 links.
Apologies for the Dutch signature.
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&q=wheat+allergy&btnG=Googl... It's called Celiac Disease. If you Google it you will get lots of info. Chances are very good that as she removes wheat from her diet she will
become more and more sensitive to it. She may require her own toaster,
for rice bread, and her own cutting boards, and even her own teflon pans.
To a Celiac eating wheat is similar to poisoning yourself.
There are not-for-profit organizations that may be of assistance,
although I found the one I joined to be just a money-grab.
There is a celiac website as well, with a few very helpful people, but
it isn't very active.
A wheat allergy isn't the same as a gluten allergy. There are those who are
intolerant of wheat but they can tolerate the consumption of barley, oats
and rye, the other cereals that contain gluten. To a person intolerant of
gluten what happens is an allergi reaction causes the lining of the small
bowel to be damaged, thereby reducing the surface area of the bowel and
causing considerably less nutrients to be absorbed. It usually results in
various vitamin and mineral deficiencies if it is allowed to continue. The
only cure is the complete removal of gluten containing products from the
diet.
A couple of links
www.coeliac.co.uk
www.celiac.com
http://members2.boardhost.com/glutenfree/
There are loads more, just search google. I have a 10 year old who has the same allery along with soy and peanuts.
what I found helpful were companies like bobs redmill, french meadows and
gluten free.com........they have great recipes and also great products. Coeliac disease is a common form of wheat intolerance, but it isn't
an allergy (standard allergy tests will never pick it up). Without more information we can't tell what this woman's problem is.
Some forms of wheat allergy or intolerance are to non-gluten-containing
parts of the grain. I have a mild form of one of those: for me, as
with a fair number of other people, white bread is fine, but wholewheat
products including the germ cause water retention and swelling (most
obviously noticeable in my fingers, I can't play musical instruments as
well).
Really acute allergic reactions to wheat (asthma, hives, anaphylaxis)
don't seem ever to be due to gluten. They're not very common.
