Re: Glutenin in rice - was: High quality soilsWASRe: Holy Organic

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>Heidi,

>

>I think you might have missed this question because I asked it just

>before I read your post saying you'd be away for a while. Any

>thoughts? I have stopped having wheat, oats, rye and barley, and have

>started eating white rice again and I haven't been getting the itchy

>eczema I was getting before. I have also been having quite a bit of

>(pasteurised) dairy and have been OK with that too (still looking

>forward to moving and getting a couple of goats, though).

>

>Cheers,

>Tas'.

Well, I did miss some of the emails and I WILL be away again but I don't know

when (the surgery is getting rescheduled, but I don't know when, don't worry,

it's not on me, I'm just on the support team).

But as for the question ... for MOST people rice is ok. I don't have any problem

with it as near as I can tell. Usually. Then sometimes I eat something with rice

and get bloated. It might be a different rice, or the rice may have non-caking

agents, or they might dust the stuff with wheat starch (they are using starch

instead of talc lately, and sometimes it's wheat starch).

Brown rice has a lot of stuff that isn't in white rice, and it seems to be

problematic to the stomach aside from the glutenin issue. I don't know that it

has more glutenin than white rice. However, brown rice is usually listed on the

" do not eat " lists for celiacs ... whether that is because it is irritating or

because it tends to have (wheat) gluten in it, I don't know. No one in our

family likes the stuff though, so once they got permission to eat white rice, we

never bought it again. My son got diarrhea from it when I tried to use it on

him, so I figure those Asians with their handheld rice polishers were onto

something.

Eczema is one of those things they don't really know what causes it, so it's

hard to know. Probiotics help with eczema for a lot of folks. Some " eczema " is

really " dermatitis herpetiformis " though (what I have), and THAT is very much

gluten related, or some other IgA allergy. The IgA itself is what causes the

itching and the sores ... they test for it using florescent light that shows the

IgA deposits under the skin. DH also flares up when the person gets iodine in

their food though ... I used to get it from shrimp and seaweed and never could

figure out how *that* happened until I understood the iodine thing. The IgA

deposits go away after some number of months or years, then iodine is ok.

-- Heidi Jean