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Cant Even Cook With Gluten?!?

GFAggie

By GFAggie
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I recently found out I have a gluten sensitivity.  I have been gluten-free for a month.  I made PB cookies for my husband, and was very careful about not inhaling the flour.  Yet, before I even got the first batch of cookies in the oven I was feeling weird.  Now I have all the symptoms as if I had actually ate the cookies.  This is normal?  Am I really THAT sensitive to flour??

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kareng Grand Master
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Did you wear a respirator? Otherwise you did inhale and ingest wheat flour. When you inhale, wheat is in the throat and some gets into the digestive system. This is a really yummy pb cookie recipe -Open Original Shared Link

I find people really like these cookies - gluten-free or not.

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nvsmom Community Regular
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Air born flour can be a problem if it is getting inside of you; some flour may have settled on the peanut butter, sugar, or butter and then if you eat it, you've been glutened.  Or it could just be an issue of accidentally touching some food or your mouth with flour.

 

I think some people could safely bake with flour but the risk and the hassle of clean-up would not be worth it for me.

 

I hope you feel better.

 

ps. Have you been tested for celiac disease?  be aware that if you wish to get tested, and you have been gluten-free for a long while, you will need to resume eating gluten for 8-12 weeks to make sure your tests are as accurate as possible.  If you do plan to test, you may want to do it as soon as possible because you may not need as long of a gluten challenge for accurate results.

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Thank you so much for your reply.  I feel so frustrated and lost.  I have not been tested for celiac.  I am waiting for my husband's insurance to start in January.  I had no idea that I was really that sensitive to flour.  I have had sever asthma all my life, I am beginning to thing it has been compounded by my gluten sensitivity.  What a overwhelming idea.  My whole life has been a LIE! Well that is a little overstated, but I feel that way some days.  I am even sensitive to gluten-free oats, that really made me cry.  

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If you're uninsured or don't have a regular doctor who can order tests for you, you can order from a private lab and self-pay. I can think of one member here off the top of my head who did this.

 

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I've had a lot of luck making my old baking recipes with Namaste gluten-free flour blend. I buy it at Costco. I also recommend you do a thorough cleaning of your kitchen, including ditching all the old plastic, rubber and metal (if scratched) utensils and dishes. I began to feel much better once I did this. As for peanut butter cookies, the gluten-free five ingredient peanut butter cookie recipe is really really good!

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shortly after going gluten free I baked cookies with my granddaughter, I thought well, as long as I wasn't going to eat them I'd be ok. wrong. I was very sick after. inhaling it, having it on my hands as I was working with it, airborne in the kitchen. not good at all. right after that I converted my kitchen to completely gluten free. it was quite a process, but well worth it. If I can't feel safe in my own home, that wouldn't fly in my world. 

 

feel better! 

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kareng Grand Master
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If you are wanting to get Celiac testing, you need to be consuming gluten for accurate results. 

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Flour is so fine, it can be impossible to work with without it going airborne and then settling on everything in the kitchen. If there's flour dust all over, you will ingest some of it. Lots of the resources I've read recommend banning flour from the kitchen entirely.

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Thank you so much for your reply.  I feel so frustrated and lost.  I have not been tested for celiac.  I am waiting for my husband's insurance to start in January.  I had no idea that I was really that sensitive to flour.  I have had sever asthma all my life, I am beginning to thing it has been compounded by my gluten sensitivity.  What a overwhelming idea.  My whole life has been a LIE! Well that is a little overstated, but I feel that way some days.  I am even sensitive to gluten-free oats, that really made me cry.  

 

My son's asthma disappeared after he went gluten-free.  He had mild asthma to begin with, it only affected him when he was sick, but his coughing is completely under control since going gluten-free.... and he even had a negative celiac test.  ( Only one test was done, he has symptoms, and his mom is a celiac so we went gluten-free anyways - glad we did.)

 

:( I missed oatmeal at first too.

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nvsmom- That is so interesting about your son.  All my life, I am 39 now, I was told my asthma was environmental. I had sever asthma nightly growing up - I now wonder if it was a gluten sensitivity.  I notice I use must less allergy medicine now, but I still wheeze.  Thanks for all your guys comments.  I might be in denial, but at least I can talk about it!   :rolleyes:   
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I've seen a few people who have commented that gluten exacerbated their asthma.  Going gluten-free doesn't usually cure it, but it can help.

 

Ah, denial.... It took me a good 6 months to finally see a doctor about celiac disease once I figured out what was wrong with me.    LOL   :rolleyes:   Looking back, it seems silly that I waited so long but change is hard... Anticipating change is even harder!  LOL

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I react to flour in the air and have celiac.  But also recently found out that I also have super-sensitive allergies.  My reactions got more defined as I stayed away from eating gluten flours.  You may want to keep allergies on your list of things to check into.

 

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