One had hydrolyzed wheat protein and the other had triticum vulgare starch, so both had gluten. After the second time it happened, I went through all of my other products to ensure they were gluten free and they are, so it’s definitely the gluten I’m reacting to. I’m not surprised this is happening now—I had a shaved head for the last 5 years but am now growing it out so I’m using products again when I hadn’t been for awhile! Both products were new. So I should see an allergist to confirm the allergy? Is there a way to confirm the celiac without eating gluten for weeks and weeks?

The nutritional deficiency & supplements advice is priceless. I have suspicions I have celiac disease but absolutely cannot put myself through the gluten challenge process to verify the diagnosis. Compounding the probable celiac disease, I feel, is my disastrous reactions to being prescribed years of prilosec/omeprazole, which I finally took myself off of due to symptoms of nutritional deficiencies, followed by being placed on it by my GI for GERD in stints of 2 months off and on. And I suspect it’s possible that a fluroquiolone antibiotic I took also contributed to existing lifelong malabsorption problems. I have made a lot of stringent diet adjustments (super strict about avoiding gluten contamination and I incorporate fermented things) & exercise regularly (walking, resistance, stretching) plus I take Vitamin D3, B6 and B12, but severe muscle spasms, muscle soreness, deep fatigue, joint inflammation and tendency to infections and brain fog keep dogging me.  I appreciate the supplements and the Omega ratios advice very much!! 

I also have experienced this from time to time.  It seems to tie in with episodes of IBS, eating too much fibre but also because I have issues with my pudendal nerve - perhaps some sort of inflammation.  Not fun at all when it strikes.

Do the skin care products that give you a rash list wheat as an ingredient or are you assuming from your reaction that they contain gluten? It is possible that not only do you have celiac disease, which is not an allergy but an autoimmune disorder, but that you also have a wheat allergy.

Thank you, I’m very happy to be here!! Yes, lately I get rashes and itching when I accidentally use topical skin products with gluten in them. I got a bad rash around my hairline after unknowingly using glutenous hairspray, and a near-full-body rash with a sea salt spray that I guess I rinsed off insufficiently in the shower. Neither looked like typical dermatitis herpetiformis to me based on the posts I’ve read here—both were just large patches, red and slightly raised, with no blisters to speak of. At least yet. The sea salt spray was used yesterday and I noticed the itching this morning, with the rash forming obviously by this afternoon and evening.