Allergy

Gluten Allergy and Arthritis Symptoms

Does gluten in your diet cause arthritis symptoms? There is a connection.

There is a difference of course between arthritis-like symptoms, and actually having arthritis.

We also have to distinguish between having a gluten allergy, and celiac disease.

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Yeast in Chocolate

Does chocolate contain yeast?

The short answer is yes. It doesn’t necessarily have a lot of yeast in it, depending on how it is processes. It may or may not be enough to be a problem for you.

Also, most chocolate has a lot of sugar in it, which is also bad if you are on a yeast-free and “don’t feed the yeast” diet.

Other ingredients added to some chocolate bars may include additional yeast.

The main culprit is maltose and other similar ingredients. Maltose is a fermented product, usually made from barley. Fermentation in this case involves yeast.

“Surely” you may be thinking to yourself, “chocolate doesn’t have yeast in it!” Here’s why chocolate has at least some yeast in it.

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Celiac Disease Cure? Larazotide May Help.

Celiac

Celiac disease may have something that comes close to being a cure. Larazotide may ease the restrictions of a gluten free diet.

Alba Therapeutics announced further clinical trials of the drug

larazotide acetate, after earlier studies showed promising initial results.

Spring Depression and Allergies

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Spring depression: such a weird idea, I didn’t connect them for decades. Figured it out last year, confirmed this year. Allergies and spring depression can go together.

I thought it was just me! But a quick search on the internet reveals that it does effect quite a few people.

Are you one of them?

Let’s take a closer look at one possible root cause: specific types of allergies.

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Celiac Disease and Type I Diabetes

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Celiac disease and type I diabetes, both autoimmune disorders, are more closely related than you might think.

Celiac disease is a condition where the body reacts against gluten. Usually there are obvious symptoms in the gut. Most people with celiac disease have symptoms such as stomach cramps and diarrhea to tip them off that something in their gut is not quite right.

But this is not always the case. This can be of particular importance if you have type I diabetes.

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Gluten Allergy and Medication

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If you have a gluten allergy, you need to check what’s in your medication.

In one way, this is no different from checking the ingredients in food, except that we often forget that not-food items such as medications may also contain gluten.

Any other ideas?

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Gluten Allergy and Candy

Gluten Allergy

If your gluten allergy has you reaching for candy as source of comfort and gluten-free energy while you figure out what you can eat, be very careful!

Most candy is gluten-free, but this can lead to complacency, exposing you to gluten poisoning yet again.

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Dust Allergy Symptoms

Asthma

Dust allergies are common, leading to skin reactions in most cases. For example, you have get hives or eczema.

It can also trigger an asthmatic attack if you have asthma. This does not mean that dust causes asthma, only that it triggers a reaction for asthmatic patients.

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Dust

Asthma

Dust, the kind people are allergic to, is different from the dictionary definition of dust. This is important if you are asthmatic, or have a dust allergy.

Really, we are talking about house dust. Especially bad if you have asthma or are allergic to dust, house dust really isn’t healthy for anybody. You’ll see why as you continue to read.

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