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What Do You Eat When You Get Glutened?


Jen H

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I am in need of some serious comfort foods. I believe I was unintentionally glutened a few hours ago and I'm not sure what to eat. What do you eat when you get glutened? How long does it take for your stomach pain and nausea to subside?

Thanks,

Jen


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I eat bananas, rice, and applesauce when I'm glutened (or just having tummy problems in general). It takes me several days for my symptoms to get better and about 2 weeks to be back to "normal." But, this differs from person to person.

Some people also suggest taking Immodium to help with the big D and other problems. I also eat peppermint to help with the nausea; other people recommend peppermint tea (I'm not a fan, personally, of the tea).

I hope you feel better soon!

jkmunchkin Rising Star

I think everyones recovery time I can vary a bit. I find within 24 hrs. the major pain and discomfort goes away, but the D and quesy feeling and brain fog can stick around for a few days.

When I'm glutened I lean towards white rice, gluten free bagel with peanut butter (ironic that I still consider a "bread" product a comfort food), and bananas. Oh and tea and water.

But what really gets me through is a heating pad and some Pepto Bismol.

Hope you feel better soon.

Jen H Contributor

Thanks for writing back so quickly. I'll try what you mentioned.

CarlaB Enthusiast

I drink Propel. Funny because when I feel good, I just drink regular water, but when I feel bad I drink Propel.

For food, I like soups, or cooked meat and cooked veggies (no salad type veggies). I usually like my veggies cooked but still a little crisp, but when I'm sick, I like them really cooked, till they're soft.

Carriefaith Enthusiast

Basmati rice and orange juice are good.

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When I get glutened (like now--and I have no idea how :angry: ), I get very nauseous. I ate a banana earlier, and some mashed potatoes. I had a little bit of steak for dinner--we had guests, so I made an attempt--and some plain baked potato. Those foods and tea are about it--and of course plenty of water. I don't stop eating completely because I find that a little food in my stomach helps.

KerriAnne Rookie

Isn't it funny that with an upset stomach, the thing we want to do is put more into it?! It's like an automatic response. Feeling sick but hungry! You just can't win sometimes.

I too rely on rice (though I usually stick with brown rice, white rice feels more like "comfort food" to me when I'm feeling yucky!), bananas, tea, and water, water, water (especially if you have bad D). Also Gatorade gets me through the tough times...again it's more fluid, but also some flavor and at least some calories.

Good luck!

gfp Enthusiast

As everyone else is saying food easily digested is best for me.

My comfort food is a chicken broth though with only a little chicken.

Immodium works best for me taken as early as possible, preferably with perfect 20/20 hindsight before ... since non of us have perfect 20/20 hindsight :D ASAP ...

Taken as early as possible it tends to offset the brain fog ... because it blocks the receptors that gluten attaches to. (the same ones for all opiates) this is my number one concern because D and cramps can be painfull, embarassing etc. but the brain fog is 10x worse and dealing with D/cramps when you have brain fog is the last thing you want to deal with.

Just as an example, Im quite introverted anyway ... I don't like asking a random resto/bar to use their loo but when Im glutened and in pain and waiting to explode .... it becomes very intimidating.

So back to chicken broth....

I boil up some chicken legs with some celery tops and offcuts and leeks etc. and a few carrot peelings and tops for 1hr but carefully pull out the chicken legs after 20-30 mins .. pull off the skin and bones/cartilidge and put back ... meanwhile I add the tender celery, a bit of carrot and leek to another (large) pan and some cabbage and boil gently ...the chicken meat I reserve in a tupperware.

Let the stock cool and skim off any fat if you like then seive back a pint into the pan with the vegetables

You can get 4 pints of stock from 6-8 legs. I start off with a very watery soup....

The rest of the stock I put in the fridge.

As I feel better digestivly I add more meat and then some rice to the soup making it thicker.....

The cartilidge and bones give lots of calcium and vitamins and nothing is wasted (nutritionally) and everything is in the best for for adsorbtion.

On gatorade etc.

This is OK but I prefer just adding some salts (esp K and Mg) rehydration type packets. to replenish those lost by D.

Apparently liquid immodioum contains gluten so I only use the capsules or better still sub-lingual (gets into the system faster)

BBadgero Newbie

I eat lots of yogurt (but as of yet know if I am dair intol as well).... it seems to help me out. The BRATS diet works too.

Hey, sidebar, anyone ever do the probiotics? I just bought some Multidophilus 12 (Solaray) as it appears all gluten-free. I just know that if yogurt helps when I am feeling bad, maybe a supplement like that can help all the time. Any one have experience with probiotics?

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:) Usually my own words.

:lol: Amen!

As for glutening, I have a red bull as soon as I know it happens for brain fog, and then I ease off the starches, since I find those make the fog worse when I'm glutened. I guess I eat a lot of peanut butter and yogurt when that happens.

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