I am allergic (badly) to Gluten and Wheat products. My allergy causes severe inflammation and ulceration to my digestive tract, and also causes a severe swelling in my joints.
Reason I write this is because I was helping out some friends who knew I have a severe allergy, and I asked them to get food in accordingly. Tesco do great range of gluten free sausages and Beefburgers, so away I munched as I spoke.
within two minutes I started to perspire badly, go red, and start scrabbling about for my bag. Cut a long story short its been a week now, and I can now just about hold a short conversation again and type without feeling like I am crackling all my joints.
So - my point being is that if your not sure what an allergy is, or not sure how sever an allergy is, or what causes it, ask. The person who has the allergy would rather tell a hundred times and be all good, than not get asked once and spend a few days unable to eat, talk or move about because of some ones kind hearted, well meaning but mistaken knowledge.
Here is my throat today just over a week later, and yes, my endoscopy showed my entire digestive tract down to my stomach is ulcerated.
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8207/glutenburn.png
Reason I write this is because I was helping out some friends who knew I have a severe allergy, and I asked them to get food in accordingly. Tesco do great range of gluten free sausages and Beefburgers, so away I munched as I spoke.
within two minutes I started to perspire badly, go red, and start scrabbling about for my bag. Cut a long story short its been a week now, and I can now just about hold a short conversation again and type without feeling like I am crackling all my joints.
So - my point being is that if your not sure what an allergy is, or not sure how sever an allergy is, or what causes it, ask. The person who has the allergy would rather tell a hundred times and be all good, than not get asked once and spend a few days unable to eat, talk or move about because of some ones kind hearted, well meaning but mistaken knowledge.
Here is my throat today just over a week later, and yes, my endoscopy showed my entire digestive tract down to my stomach is ulcerated.
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8207/glutenburn.png