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Topic: Crossreactivity between Gluten and Coffee?

tickled1
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I have heard this a couple of times now. Does anyone have any info about this?

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Keebler
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I've never heard of that. Do you recall where you heard that / who said it?

Two of the top celiac sites that can answer many questions:

www.celiac.com

www.celiacsolutions.com
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Keebler
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Not sure of the expertise of these sources here but there are a few hits from a Google search of:

coffee, gluten, cross-reactive

If so, of course, the question is what exactly does "cross-reactive" mean?

A quirky glitch in testing? Intrinsic? Or contaminated?

Always more to learn, eh? Please let us know what else you might discover about this puzzle.
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Garden
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I read a good source weeks/months ago, but I don't remember now.

For SOME people with celiac, their immune system also reacts to coffee, because for some reason, the protein/substance is similar to gluten.

I want to say it was for 10% or so of celiacs - certainly not all or most of them.

The recommendation was that if you have been follwing a gluten free diet for a while and weren't seeing improvements, try dropping coffee.

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"Fibromylagia" for 8+ years
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tickled1
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Yes Garden, it was something along those lines. I think Bea Seibert mentioned it on here too. Hopefully she'll chime in.

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WhitneyS
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Hmmm I have Celiac and have no problems with coffee at all.

I have heard that some flavored coffee might be suspected to contain gluten but I don't know how reliable that is.

I don't even think coffee beans have protein in them...

It could just be that its acidic and many Celiac patients have trouble tolerating it due to GI symptoms, maybe? But def not an auto-immune reaction in my opinion.

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Razzle
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Um, yes, coffee beans have protein in them. I have antibodies to coffee that show up on blood tests.

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WhitneyS
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wow interesting! i didnt know that Razzle

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faithful777
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Regular coffee is full of pesticides; I hope all are using organic.

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Just sharing my experience, I am not a doctor.

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Lymetoo
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I would think you need to be careful with flavored coffees and with some coffee mate type products.

I have even found special teas (like blueberry, etc) that contained barley, of all things.

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surprise
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I did a full antibody food panel test on my daughter, then 4 yrs. old,

and coffee came up sky high! Obviously, she never had coffee in her life.

I was told it could be fungal related?

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Keebler
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As LymeToo posts: many teas contain barley . . .

Barley adds to sweetness. But (to those new to all this) barley contains gluten. Many LLMDs want their patients to be gluten-free.

Many teas will also contain "natural flavors" - best to avoid those as that can be MSG or similar.

"Natural flavors" are not all that natural at all.

See the video here:

http://flash.lymenet.org/scripts/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=029690;p=0

Excitotoxins; MSG; Aspartame; & "Natural" Flavors
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