Wheat Allergy May Be Root Cause - It is for Me!!! Cutting Edge Stuff A Miracle for some of us!!

Sorry all. This place is too weird for me. Can't hope the best for everyone in a way that is not scientific in nature. OK. See ya and best wishes. I will look for a different place to share my hope!

Look with this disease it seems everything is individual. Some can eat some things, others can't. I have no problem with wheat, at all. GFG I wish you success with your diet, as I do with EMom with her luck with SCD. But everyone needs to remember while we have the same disease, it manifests itself differently in each of us. Respect our individualism.

As well, all grains (wheat) are commonly contaminated, and corn is universally contaminated with mycotoxins (fungal poisons), such as aflatoxin, a cancer-causing carcinogen, as per JAMA Jan. 2002. Along with all the antibiotic use in our society (also a mycotoxin), could fungus possibly be implicated in diseases, such as Crohn's? I believe so.

http://thehealthadvantage.com/grainsandmycotoxins.html

then how can people that have avoided wheat ther whole lives have CD? hmmm?

Thank you to all of the nice people here as well! I do appreciate your information, and it's good to know that others have found relief from this. I am sorry that the doctors couldn't help me and I had to do this on my own.

Randy - wheat avoidance isn't as popular as growing up vegetarian, vegan, or in a dairy free, or organic household. Are there people who have been wheat free from birth that later developed CD?

I agree with Keeper, that there is more than one factor involved in CD, or any disease. Not as simple as saying it is one thing, or another. As for wheat being the sole factor, no way. Those who have never eaten wheat and get CD proves that point. However, have those people ever taken antibiotics (mycotoxins), birth control pills (known to enhance the growth of yeast), drink alcohol (a mycotoxin), eat high fructose corn syrup, (a known trigger of inflammation, among other negative health effects), lived in or been exposed to a moldy environment?, ...and the list goes on. Third World countries don't eat our SAD (Standard American Diet) full of additives and preservatives, and high refined carbs. I think I have read that as they adopt our diet and lifestyle, they too are having a higher incidence of disease. We all could go back and forth here all day, trying to prove or disprove a theory. I also agree with MMMNAVY. We need to be careful in the way we say things and not come on too strong, especially when saying the "c" word (cure). For me, my 8 years of UC symptoms were definitely fungus related. After reading of others' successes, I went on an anti-fungal diet and got well, against the advice of my "expert" doctors. As I reflect now, I had taken antibiotics as a child/adult, did live in 2 moldy/mildewy homes and took birth control pills. I believe for me, ALL of those things could have contributed to my ill-health. Now that I avoid/limit the foods that feed or contain fungus (sugar/refined carbs/grains), I continue to enjoy good health.

No one can tell you what to do. As you read these forums and gain new information, do your own research, and make your own decisions. Keep looking for the thing that will work for you!

Hi I hear you when you say that you had to find this relief threw your own research and if it helps releave your symnptoms that is great. I follow low roughage and believe me if I ate nut, popcorn ,seeds and other things that annoy my system then no amount of meds or surgery would help me. So in looking after my food deciions on a good level for my Crohn's disease I am in effect helping with the symnptoms .I see that as something you have done for yourself and there is nothing wrong with you helping yourself to better help we all do it in one form or more. lol gail

hey GFG, I wanted you to know that there are many of us here who are GF and have found great relief (and post about it often) however, many of us here are touchy about having cures thrust upon us; that is because (as I am sure you know) when you are sick, people are ALWAYS giving advice and making us feel like we are somehow causing our illness. that just makes being sick harder. so be patient with any snarkiness--it is just a bit of self-protection.
I was positively diagnosed with crohns, found to be negative for celiac, yet am much better without gluten. this gut stuff is confusing business! yp

just to put my 2 cents in...back in 1988 I had a TI resection for Crohn's, in 1990 I had a rectal fistula and it did heal without surgery. Unfotunatley, symptoms returned and I have been battling them for 10 years. Glad you were able to find relief and I hope it continues for you.

Not this old story again....

If only life was that simple, I apologize for my negativity, but some of us older sicker people have heard it all
so many times before, but having said that, I'm pleased it worked some of you. But if it was all so easy, I wouldn't
have suffered numerous obstruction, surgeries, long hospital stays, chronic pancreatitis lupus, ohhhh I just don't
have strength to go on....

nfs,
If you look at her profile it has been over a year since she has been on and this is a thread from over a year ago.
Navy

The gastrointestinal symptoms of Celiac disease are very similar to Crohn’s disease. Therefore, many Crohn’s disease sufferers have gone gluten-free. Going 100% gluten free has been shown to minimize, if not eliminate, the symptoms of Celiac disease. This diet may help minimize the symptoms of Crohn’s disease as well. The major drawback to the Gluten free diet is that gluten is in virtually every processed food. You have to eat natural products such as vegetables, poultry, meat, and fish. You can find processed foods, but they must be gluten-free, not just wheat-free. Good luck for you who want to try this diet, but please, remember, you need to stick to it 100 % during some months to find out if it could reduce your symptoms.

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