Weird Sort-of Glutening Symptoms

[buffettbride]

For the most part, my daughter, 11, rocks at the gluten-free menu. We made our longest stretch without a glutening for 6 months!!! Unfortunately, she was glutened last week which was a real bummer, but while the initial symptoms were harsh, after a good night's sleep she seemed back to normal. When she's glutened, she starts with really hard burps and hiccups and just general stomach pain, followed by either throwing up (not usual) or the big D (more common).

Now for the weird "non glutening" issue...

Then, a few days later (Christmas night, actually) she woke up feeling bloated, nauseous, and had a headache. I gave her an antacid and Ibuprofin and she was able to sleep it off and felt much better when she woke up. Oddly, though, this is something that happens about every other month. She says that she doesn't really have a "gluten poop" after these episodes, but it happens often enough that I'm wondering if this "non gluten illness" happens to anyone else's kiddos. Sometimes she'll throw up, too. Either way, she tends to be able to sleep it off and feel much better. It's always the same though: a bad headache, bloating, and sometimes throws up, then about 6 hours of sleep to feel better. None of these occasions was she exposed to gluten.

I thought for a while it might be MSG that doesn't set well with her and is consistent with some of the things she's eaten around those times.

Any one else go through this either?

[bear6954]

Something like that happens to my son still. I have narrowed to two things - to much sugar or fruit sugars and acid reflux. he tells me his tummy feels bad and that his throat hurts.

[Rondar2001]

Don't mean to freak you out, but this could also be the start of puberty for her. She sounds like I used to feel occasionally before I started my periods at around that age. Just a thought.