Is it just me or do your pants/ shorts get tighter around the waist when in or around areas were gluten flour is present?

[Aaron2018]

I have noticed that sometimes my work pants can get really tight compared to normal when I have been working in the baking aisle for a long period of time. dose this mean possible bloating? My pants are not super tight all the time. I really notice my pants being super tight in the waist sometimes when I am bent over doing something or sometimes when I walk around, other times my pants just feel like they fit me properly, I didn’t change to a different size and don’t need to change to a different size because most of the time my pants fit me perfectly. I am just super confused because how can one day my pants not fit me properly and then the next day they fit me perfectly . 😕

[knitty kitty]

Hi, @Aaron2018,

How are you doing? Hope you're having a nice holiday season.

I think the tightness of your pants might have more to do with the exercise you're doing, bending over and moving around.  Muscles have more blood come into them when you're active. 

Arnold Schwarzenegger and his costars of the movie Predator had weight lifting competitions to see whose biceps would get biggest before filming scenes.  

But, then again, if you are reacting to airborne gluten from the bread aisle, yes, getting glutened can cause bloating.  Have you tried wearing a Covid mask in the bread aisle?    Is it possible for you to work in a different section?  The produce department seems safer to me.  How about you?

[knitty kitty]

I also found this article for you...

It says Riboflavin Vitamin B2 relieves itchiness like you've described.  Are you taking a B Complex?  Riboflavin would be in a B Complex supplement.  I wonder if that would help.  What do you think?

 

Riboflavin Inhibits Histamine-Dependent Itch by Modulating Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 (TRPV1)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8249943/

[Aaron2018]

I normally only were a Mask when filling flour in baking aisle, I do not work in bread aisle, I sometimes work in the baking aisle where you get ingredients like flour ,molasses sugar, chocolate chips, etc. I’m a grocery clerk. I do nothing in the bakery, the only time I ever am in the area were the bread is is to pick an order or ask a bakery person something regarding a customer. The bread at my work is located in the Same part of the store as the bakery, we do not have an aisle in the grocery department dedicated to bread.

[Aaron2018]

15 minutes ago, knitty kitty said:

I also found this article for you...

It says Riboflavin Vitamin B2 relieves itchiness like you've described.  Are you taking a B Complex?  Riboflavin would be in a B Complex supplement.  I wonder if that would help.  What do you think?

 

Riboflavin Inhibits Histamine-Dependent Itch by Modulating Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 (TRPV1)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8249943/

I take this they are gluten free: 

I also have b12 pills I also take from time to time, most  of the time I am taking the multivitamins shown in the picture 

[knitty kitty]

Thanks!  You explanation helps me understand better!  

I avoid both the baking aisle and the bakery department at my grocery store!   Yes, there's definitely more airborne flour in the baking aisle than the bakery.  

Glad you wear a mask while working on that aisle!

[Djspurr]

8 minutes ago, Aaron2018 said:

I normally only were a Mask when filling flour in baking aisle, I do not work in bread aisle, I sometimes work in the baking aisle where you get ingredients like flour ,molasses sugar, chocolate chips, etc. I’m a grocery clerk. I do nothing in the bakery, the only time I ever am in the area were the bread is is to pick an order or ask a bakery person something regarding a customer. The bread at my work is located in the Same part of the store as the bakery, we do not have an aisle in the grocery department dedicated to bread.

 

12 hours ago, Aaron2018 said:

I have noticed that sometimes my work pants can get really tight compared to normal when I have been working in the baking aisle for a long period of time. dose this mean possible bloating? My pants are not super tight all the time. I really notice my pants being super tight in the waist sometimes when I am bent over doing something or sometimes when I walk around, other times my pants just feel like they fit me properly, I didn’t change to a different size and don’t need to change to a different size because most of the time my pants fit me perfectly. I am just super confused because how can one day my pants not fit me properly and then the next day they fit me perfectly . 😕

Before being diagnosed and during my first years of living gluten-free I still suffered with waking up with flat tummy and some days I have to go up a size or 2 in pants. Yes, handling and breathing in gluten can be the same as getting gluten. Wearing the mask should help along with washing hands and being extra careful with anything going into your mouth that the wrapping could be contaminated. I unfortunately will not work in a store which uses any flour because it’s in air all the time. Good luck

 

[knitty kitty]

@Aaron2018,

Are these the same ones?

https://www.vitafusion.com/products/vitafusion-multivites.html

They don't contain Thiamin nor Riboflavin!   And that Niacin is not wonderful.

I like this kind much better...

https://www.lifeextension.com/vitamins-supplements/item01945/bioactive-complete-b-complex

 

Maybe you can try this kind when you use up the others.

I don't understand why manufacturers leave essential vitamins out of their vitamin supplements.  

 

Edited December 22, 2023 by knitty kitty
Typo correction

[Aaron2018]

6 minutes ago, Djspurr said:

 

Before being diagnosed and during my first years of living gluten-free I still suffered with waking up with flat tummy and some days I have to go up a size or 2 in pants. Yes, handling and breathing in gluten can be the same as getting gluten. Wearing the mask should help along with washing hands and being extra careful with anything going into your mouth that the wrapping could be contaminated. I unfortunately will not work in a store which uses any flour because it’s in air all the time. Good luck

 

I was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2018 and was already working at the grocery store, I really enjoy working there, but since being diagnosed I have noticed stuff that could be because of me being celiac, it  happens to me once and a while, but not all the time.

[Rick Sanchez]

On 12/22/2023 at 12:48 AM, Aaron2018 said:

I have noticed that sometimes my work pants can get really tight compared to normal when I have been working in the baking aisle for a long period of time. dose this mean possible bloating? My pants are not super tight all the time. I really notice my pants being super tight in the waist sometimes when I am bent over doing something or sometimes when I walk around, other times my pants just feel like they fit me properly, I didn’t change to a different size and don’t need to change to a different size because most of the time my pants fit me perfectly. I am just super confused because how can one day my pants not fit me properly and then the next day they fit me perfectly . 😕

Yes, after nearly nine years of not having a proper cinnamon roll or bagel, the bread aisle may or may not have and aphrodisiac effect on me.  🤣🤣  (someone had too)

I avoid as much contact as I can, I mean if you're breathing it, you're gonna sniff, it's going to end up in your belly. I dip chicken feed with my arm stretched clear out.  Recently had basically a divorce, so now have a pure gluten free house, belly issues, bloating being one, gone.