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Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease. Wheat allergy is different. With celiac disease, you'll "just" cause long term damage to your small intestine.
With a wheat allergy, a person could have an anaphylactic reaction. Because allergies are different.
It's like how lactose intolerance is different from a dairy allergy. Although confusing them is quite understandable.
There's also a lot of increasing evidence or NCGS, non-celiac gluten sensitivity.
2 years ago I thought it was just a 40-year old Karen fad, then I read about NCGS, went on a gluten and casein free diet (no gluten products or any sort of dairy) and it solved the stomach issues and sort of physical anxiety I had had all my life.
I'd like to try a double blind to see how accurate I am in recognising when. But for instance I could genuinely never binge drink, but now that I've stopped drinking beer and am off gluten and stomach feels fine, I'm able to drink and enjoy red wines. A bit too much, actually.
But I exposed myself every few months or so and every time the same. Am currently on the toilet after having eaten gluten and dairy yesterday and it's not as painful as it used to be every day before going on this diet. But the poop is orange and floats. So clearly affected.
So yah. A fee years ago I would've mocked someone who's avoiding gluten like that. Now I won't. And I do know the "I can have a little" thing, gluten is just so bloody addictive. Celiac disease is a spectrum, so people with light celiac disease could feasibly eat a tiny bit of gluten every now and then. It's just the collective effect of having it in your diet daily which causes the long term damage and inflammation.