mistysue
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- May 26, 2009
And in some of this "Gluten Free" foods they've switched to, they have subtracted the wheat flour and replaced it with pea flour or pea protien which my son is highly allergic to. I am still angry with all this attention to gluten free. If my son eats this, he will not be sick because he ate it...he could DIE. To me there is a HUGE difference. Mine is not an "over time" issue. It is a "right now" issue. It is not throwing off his system. It could literally kill him and others with serious food allergies.
I completely understand your anger. I didn't notice all the pea protein we were eating until my son developed an allergy to that too. Luckily his reactions are mild, but it's still a huge annoyance to me that it's like in the lot of people's minds right now "gluten-free = safe for all" which of course makes no sense. We are still trying to figure out which items DS is actually allergic to vs. intolerant but have to treat them all like allergies because if we assumed intolerance and gave him some, that could be the time he had a bad reaction and dies. (everything that's an issue shows up in igE tests, but allergist agrees some reactions seem like intolerance)