Nickel in oats — and contact dermatitis
It was a while ago now, but not long after I wrote a post called Are Oats Good for Eczema? a reader wrote to me and pointed out that, if you have nickel allergy, oats can be a problem. As…
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Tag Archive: oats
Are oats good for eczema?
Ask the internet this question and you’ll be presented with a long list of positive answers — of course oats are great for the skin and for problem skin conditions such as eczema, everyone declares. Use skin creams with oats…
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Schrödinger’s Oats
Labelling-wise, gluten is not an allergen — as I wrote a month ago — but oats are. Oats are one of the ‘cereals containing gluten’ as defined by the EU. They were included because they are normally contaminated with wheat…
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Not So Oat So Simple …
I recently wrote a long piece on oats in the gluten-free diet for Coeliacs Matter, in which I examined much of the available research on this subject. In summary, many of the studies supporting the safety of oats were conducted…
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Sainsbury’s gluten free oats / recall: an update
A coeliac consumer (CC) contacted me last week with a problem. CC had been eating Sainbury’s GF oats for about a year, and had been experiencing some symptoms. While CC knew, thanks to the product recall of September, that the…
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Gluten free oat product recall – and unaffected oat products
There has been a flurry of activity towards the end of September with product recalls due to contamination of gluten-free oats. Here are links to the effected products: * Some batches of Sainsbury’s Free From Oats. (Link to FSA here.)…
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