New research suggests that exposure to wheat polypeptides (chains of amino acids) may provoke development of type 1 diabetes. In the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute study, half of 42 diabetics had abnormal immune responses to wheat polypeptides. According to the research, this may show that people who are genetically predisposed to wheat allergies could be more likely develop an imbalanced immune system, including autoimmune diseases like diabetes.
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I have just had my 2nd child that has wheat allergies and it dawned on me to look up wheat and diabetes since I am diabetic. (Well it dawned on me after I changed my diet and cut wheat out to that it would not affect the baby, I noticed my bloodsugar was actually better.) I'm suprised but then again I am not.
One of my friend is also suffering from diabetes and he has wheat allergies also. Now he try to avoid the wheat related recipes in his food. After this we can say that wheat allergies cause diabetes and this is true.
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I am a practitioner very interested in the connection between gluten sensitivity and diabetes I and II.
