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A Wheat Field

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skipper30 Enthusiast
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I am looking for information which I can not find...maybe some of you can help.

We are visiting my parents right now and I am wondering about the wheat that is growing in the field and has been cut while we are here. Is this dangerous...or does the wheat have to be processed first before it is harmful. My parents are GREAT about Coop's diet...but after Coop has been complaining of a tummy ache today...dad got all worried and mentioned that he had cut the back field right before we got here Friday evening and the boys have been riding four wheelers in that area too.... :huh:

Any thoughts??

Thanks...Dallas

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If he accidently inhaled some or put some in his mouth than he could get sick.

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Thanks Carrie...that was what we were afraid of....by the way...your picture is beautiful!!!

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Thanks! The picture is from Banff, Alberta.

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Felidae
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I work in the bush and in old wheat fields. I just wash my hands with Purel before I eat and I don't chew on grasses like my co-workers love to do. I have not been sick this summer as a result of the fields.

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I would stay away from wheat fields. Just another way to get glutened.

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I am looking for information which I can not find...maybe some of you can help.

We are visiting my parents right now and I am wondering about the wheat that is growing in the field and has been cut while we are here. Is this dangerous...or does the wheat have to be processed first before it is harmful. My parents are GREAT about Coop's diet...but after Coop has been complaining of a tummy ache today...dad got all worried and mentioned that he had cut the back field right before we got here Friday evening and the boys have been riding four wheelers in that area too.... :huh:

Any thoughts??

Thanks...Dallas

I really don't have any concrete information, but I know for me at one time I had a sugar beet allergy and when I would drive through the part of town where there were a lot of sugar beet fields I would start sneezing and my eyes would swell up a little bit and get weepy. I think I was reacting to the air in that highly concentrated sugar beet area. I would think it could be the same for wheat, especially now since it is being cut (it is harvest time isn't it?) and it's really getting stirred around in the air.

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I really don't have any concrete information, but I know for me at one time I had a sugar beet allergy and when I would drive through the part of town where there were a lot of sugar beet fields I would start sneezing and my eyes would swell up a little bit and get weepy. I think I was reacting to the air in that highly concentrated sugar beet area. I would think it could be the same for wheat, especially now since it is being cut (it is harvest time isn't it?) and it's really getting stirred around in the air.

However, keep in mind that allergies are much different than intollerances. It takes actually swallowing or inhaling the gluten protein in the grain to have a reaction. The likelyhood of doing so by just driving by a field is slim to none.

When the wheat kernel is harvested it is fully in tact. It isn't ground in the harvesting process. I wouldn't recommend running into a field and rolling around in the wheat stubble, but I think it's pretty safe to drive through areas of harvest.

As far as the 4-wheeler riding goes. Tell the kids to stay out of the field. It's better to be safe than sorry.

-Jessica

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