Hey,
I was just wondering if you guys eat oats or do you cut them out, because I have heared that it is only oats that are grown around wheat that are bad for some celiacs. I have tried Scottish and Irish oats because they are not made with wheat, and I felt pretty good.

Apparently, some Celiacs can eat oats, while others cannot. Many choose not to attempt it because of the Cross-Contamination issues. From what I understand, CC is a problem when oats are milled or otherwise process in the same facilities as wheat, barley, and/or rye, or on the same equipment as those grains.

I don't know if I can eat oats without problems, but until I can obtain a better level of healing, I dare not try.

I was wheat/gluten free for over a week when I tried oats, and I very quickly had symptoms, and the depression came back with a vengeance. I will not touch them now.

I do not trust them either. I do not think they know enough yet about oats to say they are safe. Oats always made me ill anyways. I find it very hard to believe that a company can guarantee they are safe. That company would have to grow their own oats, mill them on their own property, and never, ever have wheat there for any other product just to prevent the cross contamination issue. Outside of that, I still do not trust oats.

I would also like to remind some of you. Sometimes, there are glutens that do not make you react outwardly, yet are still causing harm on the inside. Barley, in the beginning, did not cause an outward reaction in me.

Deb

oats have two entirely separate issues:

1) oats are uniquely subject to cross contamination. they are often grown in rotation with wheat, or nearby to wheat and then milled, stored, and transported in shared or co-located facilities. contamination from the seed-up, really. (really really - you'll get wheat seeds in oat seeds in cases like this and can't prevent one grain from growing in a crop with another.)

there are now, in the past three years or so, a handful of US and Canadian growers who specialize in wheat-free oat fields and production. they are more expensive, but the sift their seed, don't crop rotate with wheat, and don't co-locate with wheat facilities.

2) the oat protein, avenin, is molecularly similar to the wheat protein, gliadin. similar enough, that some people's bodies see it as one in the same, and whoosh - there goes the classic celiac reaction. studies trying to confirm the safety of oats have found that approximately 10% of the celiac population react to oats with the classic celiac autoimmune reaction. and there is currently no seriologic way to determine this, outside of an extensive oat challenge, followed by at least blood work, if not a biopsy if you're not highly symptomatic. (and we all know how wonderfully reliably that is.)

I second some of the opinions above!!!
In teh end I'm just too leary of them to try it.....the cross contamination issues!!!!
I wasn't a big oat eater prior to going gluten-free so I don't miss them much.

I eat certified gluten-free oats in moderation. They don't give me any problems.

Oats give me pains in my stomach and boy, do I miss them. However, now I eat cream of buckwheat nearly every morning, I just don't seem to get sick of it----could be the sugar I put on it!!!! There is quite a big of fiber in it and it really starts my day our swell. It is available at most health food stores, but I have never seen it at the mainstream grocery stores and as usual/expensive. It ain't cheap to eat gluten free. Barbara

I eat certified gluten free oats (glutenfreeoats.com) several times a week and have no problems whatsoever. I thank God that I am one of those celiacs that can handle oats, because they are a big part of my clean diet.

I have no problem with oats. My favorite dessert is a no bake chocolate/peanut butter/oats cookie...heated and gooey.....thank goodness I don't have a problem with it!!

I can eat oats when i make them for my family but sometimes i do get a reactions just really depends because my reactions vary everytime i eat something. At one time i believed that i had a total reaction with them because I would eat oatmeal with wheat or white toast and by 1pm total gas pain that would wake me up from a sound sleep and i would have to rush to the restroom. until i figured that it was the wheat or white toast that was making me react. then i switched to gluten-free bread and not a problem sometime yes sometimes no.

donna

I've tried pure oats, but I didn't like the taste any more! I didn't have any problems though.

Pauliina

Same here. I only use a small amount added to other flours in baking or in meatloaf.

I've done oats with no problems, outwardly or inwardly, my doctor checked. i am so happy to have oats. I am lucky that i am in the percentage that i am ok with them.