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Cross Contamination/ Time Of Symtoms


angie315

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angie315 Apprentice

I am very new to this...My 4-year old daughter has only been gluten free for four months. I am trying to pinpoint where I think she is getting some gluten. She is in a preschool setting for three days and with family for the other two days. Therefore it is getting hard for me to determine where the problem is. My question is how soon after an accident does the symptoms begin?

She never has complained of stomach pain (before or after diagnosis). She did get her very first bout of diarrhea last week (for three days) but what I typically see is her stools becoming very pale, complaints of nighttime "growing pains" and a dribble rash on her chin. I am assuming that the dribble rash is probably contamination from that day but what about the loose, pale stools and the muscle pains? Could that occur the same day of the accident?

Ugh, this seemed so much easier in theory. We went gluten free, period. The cross contamination is much harder to contain (with a 4-year old) than I thought. She is great and she does not cheat on purpose. I hear her question her caregivers if that food had gluten in it! Her acceptance and knowledge of what she can or cannot eat has gone very well. Well, except for one time, "but it was only a lick!!" of birthday cake icing! :rolleyes:


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thats a good question and i wish i could answer you but we are dealing with the same thing with our 4 year old son.

We have been gluten free for 3 weeks and its funny how kids pick up on it so fast. We went out of town for the 4th and my niece who is 6 asked him if he was allergic to cake (he was not eating any and had something different) and he told her yes. But then i found out after picking him up from my dad that he was given chips (saw a change that night) but all the in between are hard. My husband has not gone gluten free but our son knows that its daddy's food and he cant have it. But again how do you know if something has been Cross Contaminated? Thanks for asking.

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