I am wheat intolerant. I did not find this out until I went through my change. I cannot eat any form of wheat, if you have a wheat allergy or intolerance, be very careful, like Wifezilla says, it will get you. Later if not sooner. You can add Diabetes and high blood pressure to her list also, that list goes on and on.
I thought I could eat wheat's ancient grains, but my problems got worse, not better. I eat alternate grains now and so do my chickens. I buy my feed from a Texas mill that uses a lot of oats instead of just wheat as the base. I mix their scratch and oat is the main ingredient, I mix it because I can't buy it, scratch is 50% of their feed.
Thanks to continually eating wheat all through my life, I cannot eat any form of wheat and absolutely no yeast. All of my bread is made with baking soda and baking powder. I am allergic to something about chickens, but find that I can raise my own and have no problem with them or their eggs. In years past I could not eat store bought eggs or chicken but could eat plain old farm eggs and "natural farm" chicken. So I started raising chickens again, now I raise most all of our meat.
My sister, for her entire life has been allergic to any chicken but she can eat egg white with no problem, no yolk though. She is affraid to try quail, which is supposed to be the mildest eggs out there. If she eats egg yolk or chicken she will end up in the hospital. She has died twice in 2 different hospitals, due to allergies. So she is very careful what she eats. She has chemical allergies also, and quess what, two weeks ago I follow in her foot steps and find out I have a problem with that now too. That problem affects breathing. You just don't process enough Oxygen to keep the brain functioning, an immune sytem and lung funtion breakdown.
So stop eating whatever you are allergic to. Find a Dr that knows about Allergies and how they build up in your system and deplete your immune system. Allergies don't just make you sick for the short term they lead to much worse and they can kill you.
You may be suffering now, but believe me, you ain't seen nothing yet. It can get a lot worse. I don't mean to be all negative, but I hope I scared you, because you have to take allergies very seriously, or you will pay a very high price years from now. I know the economy sucks right now and times are hard. But SIS never had any money to speak of, but what they ate always came first. Always. By the way, 2 weeks ago she turned 71 and is doing pretty good for a gal that shouldn't have made it past being an infant. If she could deal with it, so can you. Keep telling yourself that. At times your diet may be very limited and you may have to cook from scratch, but thats healthier anyway.
Buy the way, you can make a birthday cake without wheat flour. I make cakes, pies, bread, quick breads, and pizzas all the time and there is no wheat flour in this house.
Good Luck and just keep doing the best that you can.
Migraine - Feverfew (Herb) if you aren't allergic to it. Will take a few months before you notice an improvement. I gave DH 1 capsule morning and night for 3 years. Now retired, doesn't need it anymore. And make that Millet bread, sweeter, I see nothing wrong with that, actually is making my mouth water. Thats breakfast.
