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Russ H

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Helped a local farmer to stack bales of hay. Had a nasty reaction. It is a grass, not too distantly related to wheat (I have coeliac disease). Took a couple or weeks to heal up. Anyone else experienced similar?

 

 

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Do you know what type of grass it was? It seems like it would be more of an allergic reaction than related to celiac disease.

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I''l have to ask the farmer. It is probably mat-grass (nardus) or common bent. They are both in the Pooideae sub-family along with cereal grasses. I wonder whether there is some connection. Grasses in general seem to be quite immunogenic.

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Some years we have had problems with hay mites. Too small to see, but had us keeping a can of bug spray by the haystack to use before handling hay. It was either wheat or oat hay, don't remember which, but affected the whole family, not just me with celiac.   

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