{"id":2819,"date":"2016-01-27T12:48:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T10:34:12","slug":"runny-nose-gluten-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/runny-nose-gluten-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Runny nose: do you need to be gluten free?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had an interesting email from a reader the other day, telling me about her route to diagnosis.<\/p>\n

She thought – and I agree – that it might help someone else get to a diagnosis, so here it is:<\/p>\n

“I have just been diagnosed with gluten and lactose intolerance after spending years of being told I had IBS. <\/p>\n

I had a strange way of finding out. <\/p>\n

For 18 months I have had a very drippy nose, sounds silly I know, but it got to such an extent I had a tissue to my nose constantly. I looked like Rudolph, and I’m sure some people thought I must have an illegal habit. (Joke.) <\/p>\n

I got so cross with the constant runs, I looked it up on the internet. It’s called postnasal drip<\/a>, (doctors call it ‘old man’s drip’), and is associated with lactose intolerance, which in turn is associated with gluten intolerance, hence my celiac diagnosis, because I told my doctor. <\/p>\n

Since being gluten and lactose free, my nose is almost back to normal, and my guts are sooooo grateful for the gluten free diet.<\/p>\n

Just thought the runny nose thing might help somebody to ascertain their condition.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So there you have it: got a permanently runny nose? Have your gut checked out… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had an interesting email from a reader the other day, telling me about her route to diagnosis. She thought – and I agree – that it might help someone else get to a diagnosis, so here it is: “I have just been diagnosed with gluten and lactose intolerance after spending years of being told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diagnosis","8":"category-living-gluten-free","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}