Ugh! Glutened Or Legumed..or Something.

[Yenni]

Ugh, I feel so crappy. Diarrea, nausea, stomach hurts a bit, irregular heart beat sometimes, foggy thinking and super tired. The only new thing I have had is frozen salmon and raisins. I had some yesterday of the fish for the first time. It gotta be it and then I had some more today and I feel so bad.

I wonder how frozen fish could make one feel glutened?? It said it had only fish in it, nothing else.

Anyone else had this experience?

I did have Kinnickinniks Flax Seed bread too today. It has made me feel a bit off sometimes too. I decided not to get more and had the last piece today. It seemed to taste a little different. They do use Legumes in their stuff but not in this bread... I dunno. I have never felt this crappy at all from it.

[Felidae]

I hate it when that happens. I eat frozen fish often and I also eat Kinnikinnick products without any problems. I hope you can figure out what it was that bothered you. Were the raisins safe?

[Yenni]

The raisins were some kind of organic type. Just said sun dried raisins on them with nothing else. The fish is supposed to be the same. I have had that brand before but not Salmon. Then I have been eating same stuff as I always do...I have no idea. I was nauseau really bad during the night and my stomach and body is really unhappy today. I feel beat, like I usually do from gluten. It is a mystery.

I hate when it is a mystery. When you can't really pinpoint why.

Well, I am not gonna eat the raisins and that Salmon again. Not the Kinnickinniks bread either. Not the Flax Seed one anyways. I have noticed that I do not do well on white rice, brown is better. The Robin bread doesn't have it I believe and I seem to do better on it.

Ugh, hate feeling this crappy. I have started to feel much better so it almost hits you harder now when you know what it feels like to have a happier stomach and more energy.

I think I always get a little inflammed in my stomach when ever this happens. I take Caraphate (I think that is the spelling) and it seems to always help me back on track faster.

[Mango04]

Kinnickinnick bread makes me so sick. I ate some last week and had an instantaneous reaction. My whole body got really itchy and I had stomach pains then my lips got really itchy and I was bloated and my throat got tight. I don't think it's a cc issue with them. I think their products contain too many scary sounding artificial ingreidients. It's not really food It's a bummer too because their products taste really good

[Yenni]

Kinnickinnick bread makes me so sick. I ate some last week and had an instantaneous reaction. My whole body got really itchy and I had stomach pains then my lips got really itchy and I was bloated and my throat got tight. I don't think it's a cc issue with them. I think their products contain too many scary sounding artificial ingreidients. It's not really food It's a bummer too because their products taste really good

I have been eating two of their breads for a couple of weeks. The rest had pea protein in them and I can't have any Legumes. I seem to get some heart burn from especially the Flaz Seed one but I have never felt anything close to this. I have no idea if it was the bread or not. I am almost guessing it isn't since I have been eating it regularly for a while and not gotten this way until now. But who knows. Maybe the last litle end of this bread had more of something cross contaminated..

I wanna say it is the fish. My hands turned orange as I took it out of the package. Salmon is orange, but I have never seen fish do that. Maybe they put something on it without saying they do...I dunno.

The raisins are pretty new for me too, but I never reacted this way when I tried them a couple of days ago.

I think I'll never find out for sure though.

I can't remember the brand of the fish now. Brain fog is making it rteally hard to think. I was chatting with a friend online yesterday and it was hard to remember how to spell things. Freaky. That seems a little better today.

I am gonna ask my husband about the brand and post it here. Maybe someone knows something or at least can get a warning to be careful with this brand. If itv was the fish.. Just seems like it.

About bread: To be really truthful I do not seem to be doing all that great on any grains or bread. I can have a little bit o0f brown Rice and feel fine on it but if I try other grains or eat more than a cup (if even that) my stomach gets gasy and a little unhappy, but I don't get the gluten reaction or anything.

[Yenni]

I think I figured out what made me sick. The Salmon had food coloring on it. I noticed another frozen salmon package had that listed and my hands turned all orange as I touched the Salmon I ate.

I think I saw someone saying food coloring can have gluten in it???

[crosstalk]

Ugh, I feel so crappy. Diarrea, nausea, stomach hurts a bit, irregular heart beat sometimes, foggy thinking and super tired. The only new thing I have had is frozen salmon and raisins. I had some yesterday of the fish for the first time. It gotta be it and then I had some more today and I feel so bad.

I wonder how frozen fish could make one feel glutened?? It said it had only fish in it, nothing else.

Anyone else had this experience?

I did have Kinnickinniks Flax Seed bread too today. It has made me feel a bit off sometimes too. I decided not to get more and had the last piece today. It seemed to taste a little different. They do use Legumes in their stuff but not in this bread... I dunno. I have never felt this crappy at all from it.

I wanted to respond to this post as this exact same thing happened to me. But I had eaten some ham and had some raisins. I think it's important to share and identify possible sources of problems.

I went and inspected the raisins for any possible flour contanimation. As I was doing so, I noticed that there was a potassium rating of 310 mg per 1/4 cup which is huge! I probably had a cup of those raisins snacking on them! Plus I had a some advocado with a salad (not knowing that the raisins were so high in potassium!). I had the exact same symptoms as you, but I realized it was not being glutened, but I had too much potassium. Also, the sugary nature of raisins probably didn't help either.

When I was trying to increase my potassium intake I noticed that I got D when I over did it. I think its the body's mechanism of getting rid of the potassium it can't handle. And I felt crappy as you so eloquently described.

It's important to be careful before we rule out a food because we had a reaction. I'm not ruling out miscellaneous cross contaminations with the raisins (I know the other foods are safe), but I think this is the most likely explanation.

Also, another note, I know that many have given up potatoes (I have for a while). It's important to be sure to replace that with a source of potassium for a balanced diet.

[Yenni]

I mean to post what brand the fish was. It is called Wild Pacific. The Halibut was fine but the salmon, well my fingers turned orange so they must have had a coloring on it. Unlabeled.

I read that the same food coloring as is used in yellow cheese is usually used in fish. I did a search on this board and it is said to be gluten free, but can create a reaction in Celiacs. So maybe it was it.

I haven't has the raisins or the fish after that so who knows for sure. I didn't eat that many raisins and had them a couple of times before I had the salmon, so I am still guessing on the Salmon.