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I know this has been asked before, but I can't find it. How long do the effects of being "glutened" last?

I am not very sensative to cross-contamination. But I know for sure that I got gluten on Tuesday. Days later, I still feel nauseus and gassy and have no appetite.

However, my little one vomited the other day and had no appetite for a few days, so it could definitely be some kind of stomach virus. (His results were negative for celiac disease).

I just was wondering how long the effects last. Just want to compare my notes.

Thanks,

Nikki

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HI

When I eat anything with Gluten or Wheat I have different reaction times. I can eat the same thing once or twice and not have a reaction, I can eat that same thing prepared the same way and I can be in the bathroom with D and heartburn stomach burn and such. I love Brownies they are my weekness, it took me a long time to figure it out that when I had brownies from 7-11 that I would be in the bathroom. My Gi told me that if I do have celiac disease, that my reaction would be called Intermitin kind where I have reaction and other times i dont. So I never know. I only know when I get heartburn/stomach burn while eating like spegetti sauce somthing rich. I think that is why I get confused about If I am sick or not, because i don't ever vomit just everything else.

Donna

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Nikki, everybody's reaction and reaction time is/are different.

I find for myself, the first hour or so is fine after ingestion, but then after that I grumpy and get horrible stomach bloatedness, and all I want to is go to bed and try and sleep, I am no good for anything. After a couple of hours that feeling goes and I tend to sleep it off. The next day, I will feel like a truck has run over me, or hungover and the bloatedness will persist for a day ors os. I am usually not too bad once the day progresses, but feel a bit down (it has been a while since I have been glutened), and probably the following morning I get diarhoea with everything that goes with that and I will still feel below par for about 3 or four more days, but it is quite liveable, it is like a mild depression where I can't figure out why I feel down, but then I remember it is gluten which makes it more manageable as I know it will pass and I will be feeling great in a while.

Just because your son had a negative result does not mean he has no problem with gluten. I would keep an eye on him just in case.

Hope you are feeling better soon.

Cathy

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I tend to take about three weeks to recover completely, but it's like Kaycee said, the third week I'm just a little down and off and I forget why. The I remember that I was glutened three weeks ago. :) I used to get a bit confused about it until I figured out that it really took me that long to recover.

Last time I got glutened was beginning of April, I notice that now my energy is back to "normal". All of April was a bit "down", even though I wasn't sick enough not to work or anything. I basically could go on with my life, just enjoyed it a bit less than usual.

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