Question by blue skies: Is it possible to not have celiac disease and still be allergic to gluten?
I don’t have celiac disease because I was tested, however, I do have acne/seb derm and feel that this could be due to an allergy to gluten. Is it possible to not have celiac disease and still be allergic to gluten?
Is it possible also, to grow up and develop an allergy to gluten even though at a younger age, you weren’t allergic?
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Answer by Zoe C
Yes, it is possible to not have celiac and still be allergic to gluten. Celiac disease is technically an intolerance, not an allergy. The symptoms may be similiar, but the way the body responds is different. With celiac disease, the body is unable to process and digest gluten but a person with a gluten allergy has a reaction when gluten is digested.
Your doctor will be able to explain this in more detail and administer tests to determine whether you have a gluten allergy.
I cannot answer whether you can grow into a gluten allergy, but as a person with Celiac Disease, I can attest that yes, it is possible to grow into Celiac Disease. My mother was diagnosed when I was 10 and since I was 15, have gradually grown into the disease.
Symptoms (typically resulting in intestinal damage) become more severe the longer you have the disease without knowing, so your best option may be to adhere to a gluten free diet, whether you are allergic or not.
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Yes, it is not only possible, but very common to test negative for celiac disease and still have gluten intolerance or allergy. I know several people who tested negative for celiac and then decided to try the diet on their own and their symptoms went away. And that’s how celiac disease works, it isn’t there your entire life. It is “activated” sometimes after a stressful event or illness and sometimes randomly. I personally think I’ve always had celiac very mildly, but then when I went vegetarian at 15 it ramped up and I got very sick because I was eating so much bread. Oh, and there are a lot of false negatives. So it’s entirely possible that you have celiac disease or another form of gluten intolerance. Try the diet and see if it helps 🙂
Gluten allergy is very rare. Celiac disease is a type of gluten intolerance, not an allergy, but an auto-immune disorder. There are also other types of gluten intolerance which, so far as is known at present, are not celiac disease. They are therefore sometimes called non-celiac gluten intolerance.
Both allergies and intolerances may occur later in life. For allergies, this is almost a given, as you cannot become allergic without first being exposed to the thing to which you later become allergic (though this exposure may be placental). It seems that many types of food intolerance, including celiac disease, are latent and do not become active until some trigger occurs.
Yes to both of your q’s.
Or on the opposite people can be a celiac and not allergic to gluten…Allergies and intolerance’s are different concepts.