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Common cold and diarrhea??

mareahf

By mareahf
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mareahf Apprentice
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Hello,

I have been gluten-free for 12 years now and I feel great when I’m on the diet but when I accidentally get glutened I definitely feel it with symptoms starting with anxiety, brain fog, fatigue then it moves on to diarrhea, headaches and nausea for days. 
Now it seems when I get a common cold or a the flu, diarrhea is a symptom!?! I don’t feel the other symptoms as if I had been glutened but the diarrhea is very similar.  I feel like my gut is super sensitive now and any illness inflames my gut. 
Does this happen to anyone else? Does anyone know why that would happen? 
In the past I had a horrible head cold and diarrhea with cramping so bad I thought I had diverticulitis. I went to the doctor and after doing an abdominal scan they saw it was pneumonia! 
Let me know what y’all think. Thanks
 

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I recall getting stomach issues when I had bad allergies that clogged up my nose. It was cased by the nasal drainage. Perhaps when you have a cold you have the same issue, which can case stomach upset?

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