can eating the Paleo way create an Intolerance?

[hannahinaus]

Hi, I'm Hannah from Australia. I'm a single mum of two young children, 7 and 3. My first introduction to Paleo was when a friend and I did a 21 day challenge back in September. I felt fantastic while eating this way but slipped straight back into my old diet when the challenge was finished. A couple of weeks after eating regularly again II started having migraines (with aura, numbness and headache), nausea, headaches, lethargy, sensitivity to light and sound and just felt crap. Dr did blood and urine tests, ct scan etc but all came back fine. I had no intolerances that I knew of before trying Paleo, is it possible that by removing something from my diet completely for three weeks has triggered an intolerance?! I want to go back Paleo but my dr wants to test for celiac disease next, but that means I have to eat two slices of bread per day for 6 weeks before they do the blood test. If this is what is making me sick I don't wanna eat it!!! Is there another way to test for celiac? Am thinking of seeing a naturopath too, any advice welcome, thanks

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[localkaty]

It can't create an intolerance, but it can help reveal one that's already there. Simply put, there's a part of your immune system remembers and reacts to things, and another part that calms that reaction down. The cells that cause the two responses have different life cycles, and that's what makes elimination diets so effective at unearthing intolerances - the "calm down" cells die before the "attack" cells, so a previously mild reaction becomes more noticeable. If your symptoms are the result of an intolerance, your immune system was responding before, it was just harder to tell.