Do you wonder if gluten can really be absorbed through the skin? Well, I'm here to put your mind at ease. I unravel the complex world of skincare products that, unlike food, are not always labelled for gluten content. I also discuss why children with celiac disease are more prone to ingesting them.
Of course, life with celiac disease doesn't have to be an uphill battle. With the right knowledge and understanding of your body, you can take control and effectively manage your health.
This episode is for you if you are living with celiac disease, and even those who might face it in the future.
Learn more about Ultimate Celiac System here
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Do you wonder if gluten can really be absorbed through the skin? Well, I'm here to put your mind at ease. I unravel the complex world of skincare products that, unlike food, are not always labelled for gluten content. I also discuss why children with celiac disease are more prone to ingesting them.
Of course, life with celiac disease doesn't have to be an uphill battle. With the right knowledge and understanding of your body, you can take control and effectively manage your health.
This episode is for you if you are living with celiac disease, and even those who might face it in the future.
Learn more about Ultimate Celiac System here
www.belindawhelan.com/ultimateceliacsystem
Join my free community and grab your copy of 11 Mistakes People Make Living Gluten Free here www.belindawhelan.myflodesk.com/11mistakes
Check out my Daily Health Tracker here
HEALTH TRACKER | The Healthy Celiac (belindawhelan.com)
And I would love to connect with you on Instagram thehealthyceliac
If you have a spare moment, please pop over to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review. Thank you!
Music Credit bensound.com
Alright, welcome back to this week's episode of the show. Now, one thing that has been on my radar lately is a lot of people reaching out to me about celiac disease and skin care and whether gluten can be absorbed through the skin. So this is an excellent question. So, to all of you who have sent me messages and asked me this question recently, this episode is for you Now.
Speaker 1:Gluten is an interesting one because, as we know, when we consume gluten, as someone living with celiac disease, it is very inflammatory and very dangerous for our health. It causes so many problems and we want to avoid it like the plague. So it only goes hand in hand to ask this question, and I am a massive advocate of no question is ever a silly question or a bad question. So if you ever have a question that you think is a little bit silly, or you think it's something that you should know the answer to, or you're too scared to ask, please know that I will never judge you on your questions and you should always feel free to message me at the healthy celiac on Instagram and ask your questions, because it helps me to help you. So I hope that makes sense, alright, so let's get into it. So can gluten be absorbed through the skin? Now, if you know anything about skincare, then skincare we basically rubber on our skin, which is our largest organ, and many, many products let's just say many products a lot of products have toxic chemicals in that skincare, and when you rub it onto your skin, it actually absorbs into your bloodstream. So it is quite well known that what we put on our skin does go into our body itself. And you know, there's been studies done on newborn babies and they've tested that their umbilical cords straight after they've been born, and there's been hundreds and hundreds of toxic chemicals in that baby's umbilical cord. So it goes without saying that our body does absorb what goes onto its skin. But gluten, however, does not get absorbed through our skin, and the reason for that is the molecules are too big to be absorbed into our skin, which is fantastic. So it's something that we don't need to stress that we're going to get gluten as such from putting body care products onto our skin that maybe contain gluten. But there is a but, and this is where I say it's important to be wary of what you are putting on your body, because not only can some products make their way into your mouth. You know, we do want to be making sure we're not putting chemicals on our body, and that's a whole another topic, that's a whole another story. But as far as gluten goes, then you know, not every single person with celiac disease has to be 100% careful about this, because if you're putting products on your body and there's no chance of them being in your mouth, then you probably don't have to stress too much about it.
Speaker 1:Some people cannot touch gluten at all, so they'll have celiac disease, but they'll also have an allergy to touching the actual gluten. So that is not every single celiac. So you may find that you can touch gluten and you don't have like a topical kind of reaction to it. Whereas the next person may not be able to touch it, me myself, I can touch it for short periods of time. So if I make my girls a sandwich, they will have gluten sandwich and my husband same. He will eat gluten bread and I can touch it. I'll take it out the bag. I can, you know, put the spread on it, make it, cut it up, whatever, and then wash my hands and I'm fine. I don't have an issue with that.
Speaker 1:Some people cannot touch gluten at all in skincare products. So if that's you, then you are going to definitely want to make sure you're not buying anything with gluten in it whatsoever. And if that's not you, if you find that you can touch gluten and you're fine with it in skincare, then there's certain products that I would say you just need to be careful of. And if you've got a child with celiac disease, then again, depending on their age, it would just depend on what you're putting on them. So little kids, I'd be very careful. I wouldn't put anything on a little child that's got gluten in the body care product, because kids just have a way of getting skin in them. You know, like I don't know if you've got kids, you get this. If you're around kids, you probably understand they suck on their skin. They're always putting their fingers in their mouth. They're actually pretty gross with what they do, so we don't know how much over time that you know if they're sucking on their skin and they've got sun cream on or you know just something that's on them. Skin care products are, finally, probably the thing that I would say definitely avoid anything with gluten in, because it's very high chance of it washing down over your face, getting into your mouth that type of thing. Lip balms, lip glosses definitely avoid anything with gluten in things like that. Those really obvious things that could very easily make their way into your mouth are things that I would say be very, very careful of.
Speaker 1:Now, when it comes to skincare products, they are not labeled like food. We don't have the same sort of regulations around body care or skincare products, hair care products, whatever you want, let's just call it beauty products, so any beauty products. They don't have any sort of labeling laws like we have for food, where they have to clearly label. You know, in the correct terminology. They'll go about it in very funny ways of labeling those ingredients, so it can make it quite tricky and it can be labeled in so many different ways.
Speaker 1:The ingredients for a gluten ingredient can be many, many different ways. Inside Ultimate Celiac System, my signature course for Celiacs, you will find a huge overview of this and a lot more information in depth of what to look for and all of those ingredients that, if you need to you know you need to really nut this out then that's all included in my program. So go ahead and check that out over on my website, belindawheelandcom, just to learn a little bit more about that because that might be something just to make this so much easier for you. But I just wanted to answer that question today because knowing what you're putting on your body is super important and knowing that your body doesn't absorb gluten might just help you feel a little bit more at ease. But if you are the sort of person who knows that you are reacting to gluten and you want to make sure that you're cutting that out, then you definitely need to be looking at that and making sure that your products are free from gluten.
Speaker 1:And you know some companies are getting a bit more switched onto this and they are writing on their products gluten-free. Because it is a big market, you know you'll find more products now that are labeled, you know, vegan friendly or gluten-free or toxic-free. So, you know, start looking at labels when you are shopping and start noticing these labeling. And you know it might even be worth reaching out to these companies and saying thank you, because the more that people you know do that and recognize that these products are valuable to us as a CELIAC community, gluten-free community, you know, the more they're going to keep doing it and the more they're going to sit. You know, understand that we see them and we feel seen and we feel heard. So I love it when products have got gluten-free written on it, because it makes it so much easier.
Speaker 1:I'm not even joking, I don't know all of the names of all of the things that we need to look for. I have a list that I refer to and you know I've got my favorite products that I stick to and I know that they're safe. And then sometimes if my daughter's looking for things or we're just looking at products together, I can look through and check out those ingredients. So it's definitely something to have an awareness around and learn more about, because you know, like I said, no question is a silly question and you don't know what you don't know.
Speaker 1:And the more that you learn, the more that you can look after your health, your body, for the future and especially if you have children with CELIAC disease or you have children now that may develop CELIAC disease in the future, you've got those answers there to guide them and to help them to live a really great life with CELIAC disease, because you know it can be challenging, don't get me wrong, but the more you know, the more you can look after yourself. So I hope that helps and I hope that answers that question for you this week and have learned something new and can take this information and move forward with your CELIAC journey. So thanks so much for listening and tuning in and I look forward to talking with you again very, very soon. Have a great week, take care.