Non Gluten Tummy Ache

[2kids4me]

Well, my daughter ended up needing an appendectomy a couple of weeks ago. In hindsight she possibly had symptoms of chronic appendicitis - but I thought she was being glutened by cross contamination some where. She had tummy aches that would come and go, nausea, mild fevers - some of the symptoms she had before she was diagnosed celiac.

Then things got way worse on a Tuesday in early June when she starting vomiting bile, fever, tummy ache, and looking like crap. I took her in to the childrens hosp in the evening and the next morning she had her appendix out.

She hasnt had tummy ache since.

How do we tell when a tummy ache is not a gluten tummy ache?? I feel bad that I may have missed early signs of trouble. The signs were identical to when she was being glutened before, the only symptom that was missing was the "gluten migraine" that disappeared after gluten-free diet started.

Anyone else think it was gluten cross contamination and then it turned out to be something else entirely?

[Nic]

Thank God I have not had such a bad experience but can relate because when my son has something as simple as a stomach virus I am panicked over whether or not he was glutened. My son still has occassional stomach trouble even when not glutened so I ignored his stomach ache this Tues. and brought him around other kids. I thought he was just having his usual trouble, but no, he was actually sick. I felt terrible that I exposed other kids to his virus.