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oniongarlic · 1 year

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can you not eat bread

i have celiac disease so i cant eat anything with wheat, barley, or oats [some oats are gf and i CAN eat those]. youd be fucking amazed how many foods have fucking barley malt in them as flavouring [rice crispies, chocolate, many kinds of sauce]. i will also get sick if i eat food cooked in cross contaminated fry oil or in cookware that has had gluten in it. basically my immune system is holding a gun to my intestines and if a single gluten molecule gets in there its gonna shoot that thing. i can eat GF bread tho, which these days is not half bad.

#'isnt it hard to eat casually at other peoples houses' you may ask #and my answer is simple #i simply do not do that #i only really trust my family - other celiacs - and professional chefs to prepare food for me #bc id rather be hungry for a little while than get poisoned and give myself months worth of digestive tract damage #because in addition to amazing levels of joint inflammation #celiac autoimmune reactions destroy your small intestine and basically stop u from being able to take in nutrients #so you starve to death on a full stomach

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