carolynmay

No - the reason it isn't psychosomatic is that I don't react at the time - and indeed it's taken me ages to work out what I think the cause is. I react the next day - my system goes into overload and kicks everything out. And it's the same deal when sitting in a room with people eating sandwiches. If it were psychosomatic I would expect to feel ill when...

I would suggest that we don't know anything like as much as we need to about the way the body recognises and reacts to a substance which triggers an auto-immune response. Just because there isn't actually "gluten" per se in steam or vapour doesn't mean the body might not recognise the smell or some kind of similarity with what it used to know as the evil...

Dear all, I know this is probably ridiculous, but someone asked me the other day how I can be sure that duck fat and goose fat are safe given that the animals spend their lives surrounded by grain and are indeed probably covered in grain dust for most of the time, and presumably processing may not be awfully careful in terms of removing grain dust. I guess...