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Hi - have you been tested for celiac? It's an autoimmune disease that results in gluten intolerance, and if you're having problems with pasta or white breads that's a red flag. It's also possible that you have a wheat allergy.

Your doc should be able to test you for both celiac and a wheat allergy. See if you can have these tests asap (if you haven't already) as you need to have been eating wheat/gluten before the test or you could have a false negative.

If you can't tolerate just wheat, you can still have rice, oats, barley, polenta, quinao, buckwheat. If you can't tolerate gluten you have to be stricter than that, as grains other than wheat have gluten in them as well.

Let us know what you find out. We've got gluten intolerant and wheat allergy folks on board, with IBS as well, so you'll get lots of great info for working around both (including safe bread and pasta recipes and ideas).

- H

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