I think I might be allergic to flour

[Raw]

Hi everyone! 

So I think I might be allergic to flour. I work in a kitchen mostly cooking fried chicken with flour. Every time I go near the flour to start breading more chicken, I start sneezing. Eventually by the end of my shift I’m still sneezing and now have a runny nose and sore throat. Similar to cold like symptoms for the rest of the day. When I eat anything cook with flour I’m fine and have no problem with it but when exposed to flour at work it always leaves me with cold like symptoms. Any idea on why this might be happening? 

[trents]

Sounds like that might be the case. Having said that, do you realize that a forum for Celiac Diseases is not about allergies to wheat? Celiac Disease is not an allergy. It is an autoimmune disease triggered by ingestion of wheat that causes damage to the small bowel lining.

[Ennis-TX]

Allergy to the flour or the seasonings they blend in with it. Look into getting a pollution mask for work or something like this respro.com/store/product/techno-mask

See about getting some allergy testing down, Celiac is a whole different animal, I would probably shoot someone if they threw flour at me as legitimate fear of my life though. With celiac we have to worry about inhaled flour getting trapped in mucus in our nose and throat and running into our digestive tracts and triggering out immune systems to attack our bodies. Celiac is autoimmune disease....the gluten protein in flour causes our immune systems to go berserk and for different people can attack different parts of our body mostly the small intestines but in some cases brain, nerves, skins, etc. While celiac and a wheat allergy is possible we normally do not get the sneezing, drainage, allergy effect from it.