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High Fever After Being Glutened?

Tori's Dad

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Tori's Dad
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My wife is an asymptomatic Celiec so it's real hard to tell if she has been glutened or not. After a beach trip with the girls this weekend and LOTS of eating out at restaurants, she began to feel tired and quesey Monday. On Tuesday she had the big D, bloating and the normal symptoms of a glutening (for others that is. She never had any symptoms before) but then she spiked a fever of 102 last night. The fever broke pretty quick and now she seems fine.

Our 2 kids have the upper respitory crud right now so it could be just a virus I am curious. Celiac is an autoimmune disease so a fever doesn't sound too far fetched.

Thanks in advance!

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buffettbride
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There's some nasty sickness floating around these days.

Both my kids have stuffy noses and my son still has the uberpoopies after about 5 days--the first 2 days with a low-grade fever. He is not Celiac. He just had a "bug." My daughter, who is Celiac, also had the uberpoopies, but only for about 2 days, no fever, and was not glutened.

JNBunnie1 Community Regular
JNBunnie1
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My wife is an asymptomatic Celiec so it's real hard to tell if she has been glutened or not. After a beach trip with the girls this weekend and LOTS of eating out at restaurants, she began to feel tired and quesey Monday. On Tuesday she had the big D, bloating and the normal symptoms of a glutening (for others that is. She never had any symptoms before) but then she spiked a fever of 102 last night. The fever broke pretty quick and now she seems fine.

Our 2 kids have the upper respitory crud right now so it could be just a virus I am curious. Celiac is an autoimmune disease so a fever doesn't sound too far fetched.

Thanks in advance!

I had fevers when I was sick with Celiac before I figured it out and went gluten free. Fevers seem relatively rare but certainly nothing unusual.

Ridgewalker Contributor
Ridgewalker
Posted

My older son often gets a fever when he gets glutened, but only low-grade (usually around 99.5.)

Cam's Mom Contributor
Cam's Mom
Posted

I don't know where you live but there is indeed a nasty little bugger of a bug going around here in Western Mass. It does include both fever and tummy troubles and strangely enough many people I have spoken to have reported shoulder and neck pain with this thing (usually preceding the bug) like a stiff neck from sleeping wrong. But 4 separate people have mentioned it - so makes me wonder. My daughter and I (both celiac) had this bug and don't think we were glutened.

But, aside from that, pre-diagnosis when my daughter was really, really, sick with Celiac symptoms, they were accompanied by a continuous low grade fever.

Hope you figure it out.

Barb

neesee Apprentice
neesee
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I was running a fever of about 101 degrees every day starting at midafternoon into the evening until I was hospitalized. From what I understand, I was pretty far gone at that point. I was sick for several yrs. before I started running fevers. A random glutening does not cause a fever now that I am healed.

neesee

Yellow Rose Explorer
Yellow Rose
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I have been glutened several times since starting the gluten-free life style and each time I get a high fever, with chills. Once the fever leaves then I start feeling better. It usually comes on the second day and lasts several hours.

Yellow Rose

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Thanks for all of your posting. I recently had an inadvertant glutening, a swallow of barley tea which I mistook for regular tea. I had low grade fever and was miserable, but it was weird, it was on day 4, 8 and 9 after the glutening that I had the fever. I was really wondering if this could be from the glutening, so I read your posts with interest.

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smalltownslackermom Newbie
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I know this an old thread but I want to add my experience for when others coming looking.

I get fevers when glutened. 99.2 F up to spikes of 100.3. I don't know how long they run. One time was 4 days before I figured out what I was eating that had wheat in it. As of may 8, 2009, I am on day 5 of fevers in 6 days of a gluten challenge. and boy am I eating gluten - 3 xs a day :( At least I now know what it is and I don't think to myself. "oh I need to rest, I'm running a fever," and therefore my life doesn't completely fall apart. I can keep taking care of my son and house and life...

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