Daughter Made A Betty Crocker Cake

[1morething]

My 15 year old made a Betty Crocker cake today with a bunch of friends and when I got home from work, the kitchen was a mess. She put the entire cake mix in 1 round cake mold instead of 2 so the entire thing overflowed in the oven. I cleaned the oven and took the cake out of the mold because it was stuck and cleaned everything up. Now I'm having pains in my belly, I never thought I could get glutened by C/C. I didn't put my fingers in my mouth, I washed my hands, do you think I got glutened, or am I over reacting?

thanks

[Juliebove]

You shouldn't be touching gluten and your daughter shouldn't have made that cake in your kitchen. Of course you got glutened!

[larry mac]

Dear Ms. Montreal,

I don't know for sure but yes, you probably are overreacting. It's doubtful you were physically glutened. More likely, it's a mind over batter thing. You freaked out. How do I know? I did the same thing.

Ok, so I'm gluten-free for a year and doing fine. Since I do all the grocery shopping and cooking, I have almost total control (and gluten-free comfort) of my kitchen. So my mother-in-law comes to visit. She gets my wife to go to Walmart and get the ingredients to make chicken and dumplings for my step-daughter. I come home from work to find raw dumpling dough all over the sink, all over dishes and utensils in the dishwasher, yet my wife saying "don't worry, we washed up".

To say I was a little upset would be an understatement. I could't help it. I may have said something about them trying to poison me. The next day my mother-in-law went to stay with some other relatives. I felt really guilty, but you know what? I can't have that happening in my house.

Regular bread for sandwiches for the non-celiacs. Yes, as long as they understand cross contamination basics, have their own condiments, toasters, etc. Raw wheat flour in the house, cake baking, dumpling making with bisquick, etc. NO, SORRY! Can't allow it. Thought I could, but no, found out the hard way that mentally, I can not be comfortable with it.

So yes, you are overreacting. But that's what we must do to live with this disease. To be safe we must always overreact (in the eyes of others). It's unfortunate for those that live with us. Hey, they may not like it, but that's the breaks. There's simply no way that they can truly comprehend what it's like to have this affliction.

That's my story. Best regards, lm

[mommida]

We had some gluten free cat treats in the house. (This cat needs to be trained, and I was desparate. I can't believe a little 3 ounce bag could be such a nightmare.)

Flash forward - my poor daughter has been vomitting on and off for two months. She had to go to the E.R. and have an IV with meds to settle her stomach down after vommitting all Sunday. No fever and no gluten ingredients in her food.

DON'T EVER WILLINGLY BRING GLUTEN INTO YOUR HOUSEHOLD. Female hormones make any auto immune illness worse. Cross contamination happens, and it will make you sick. I will never say any Celiac, DH, or gluten intolerant person is over reacting.

[digmom1014]

I don't know if it was psychosomatic in your case or not but, this is what happened to me...

My 12 yr. old son decided he wanted "blood" smeared on his shirt for Halloween and I carefully put reg. flour, water, and red food coloring in a bowl. I put on disposable gloves and proceeded to apply the "blood". Well, I was sick for several days. I think it was the air born ingestion of flour.

You may have also breathed in unbaked cake mixture as you cleaned-up the counter or something.

This incident brought home to me how careful I have to be.

[ANDOBEAR]

I was recently informed by a nutritionist that once flour is introduced into the air it takes a full 48 hours to "fall" out of the air and land on surfaces. So, even if you cleaned up very carefully at the time, there still may have been mix in the air. Mix may have fallen onto surfaces after you finished cleaning and stopped being so careful. There is NO flour allowed in my house. One time someone made cookies in the house and I was paying for that for a week.