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As an infant I was fed whole milk which was added to butter and white flour
mixed and heated in a pan. I had dark circles [unusual for a child of Irish
and English descent I was told] under my eyes and was painfully thin until I
was 17 years old when I went away to college. There I relaxed and gained
weight. Went from 114 to 135 [5'81/2"]
When my first child was born I began to have allergic symptoms. By the
time, four years later, the third child was born I was a full-fledged
allergic asthmatic. Last February, I was "muscle-tested" and told that I
was born without the enzyme that digests gluten and to go off wheat, rye,
oats and barley immediately. A few weeks later I was told to avoid
vaso-amines [things like pineapples, and apples and tomatoes and avocados
and shrimp and many more foods.] I still don't know what a vaso-amine is
however....
The chronic and severe allergic asthma is gone!!! Allergies to animals,
dust, molds, ragweed are unknown to me for one year!!! I lost 30 lbs and
now have the figure I always knew could be mine.
Now my question. Since my symptoms do not include wasting or diarrhea only
allergic asthma, do I have celiac disease? Is it something else? Does it
matter?
By the way, we have two beautiful male adult cats and occasionally when I
eat a tomato or a banana or chocolate, my eyes itch.
Am I here under false pretenses? :^)
Pam in Auburn, NY
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