Glutened By gluten-free Museli?!?!

[Ems1984]

So one of my favourite snacks during the day is yohgurt and gluten-free museli, i have it nearly every day...

Something weird happened today though, about 2 mins after eating it i got all the symptoms of being glutened; headache, fatigue, gas and d. The museli is def gluten-free so the only other poss thing it could have been was the lactose in the yoghurt.

ive been drinking soy milk instead of normal milk to eliminate any reaction to lactose other than yoghurt (apparently it has good antibodies that lactose-free people can tolerate). I know i havent cross-contaminated either because i am the only cook and i obviously dont have gluten in the kitchen...

Can anyone share any experiences they've had with feeling glutened even though they havent eaten anything bad? or perhaps experiences with lactose allergies??

Ta!!

Em xx

[GFinDC]

Hi EMS1984,

I am lactose intolerant and casein intolerant, so I can give you a little info on them. Lactose is the sugar in dairy, and casein is the protein. Lactose intolerance generally means your body doesn't produce the enzyme to digest the lactose sugar. So it goes through you intestine and and makes lots of bacterias very happy. Those bacteria feed on the sugar and make gas etc as they grow and multiply. They can cause diahrea also. You can take Lactaid pills to help digest the lactose sugar in dairy.

For me casein keeps me from sleeping for a couple days. It acts like a super wake up pill. But lactaid pills don't digest casein so no help on it. I don't know how it affects other people. DPP-iv is supposed to help digest casein but I haven't had much success with DPP-is with dairy. It does seem to help with gliaden though.

I try to avoid soy myself so I look for rice milks or others. But I don't do use much milk anyway. Sometimes I use a little coconut milk in cereal. I have read that they have coconut yogurt now but haven't tried it.

Maybe if you eliminate the yogurt for while you cna identify if it is causing a problem? You would probably want to check labels for whey, casein, caseinate, and lactose also if you want to do a total dairy elimination.