Post any general questions or information about being gluten free

If someone is gluten sensitive and gets to the point of having a truly healthy gut is there still a danger in “cheating” with a bit of gluten?

From what I have read and learned from being at HealthNOW Medical Center years ago, our bodies are not made to digest gluten, therefore, why consume it at all? However, let’s face it, if you consume other bad stuff like refined sugar, and who doesn’t now and again, you won’t die from it, but it is unhealthy. I read that if you are going to consume a lot of sugar, drinking plenty of water the day before and the day afterwards will help flush it out. Perhaps that would work with gluten consumption, as well.

I wish all it would take to “flush” gluten from one’s system is a healthy dose of water but unfortunately that is not the case. The reaction of the immune system literally cascades throughout the body causing a myriad of dangerous symptoms and diseases. Better to just avoid it!
Dr Vikki

I’m struggling with trying to understand the difference between a wheat/gluten intolerance and an allergy. Obviously, there is the anaphylactic type of allergy that would be different from the gluten intolerance that a Celiac patient experiences. But isn’t there also a type of wheat/gluten allergy that manifests itself in the form of digestive complications, too? And how would that be different from gluten-intolerance?
Thanks for helping me to understand this. Heather