I Feel Like A Total Dopewad Right Now...

[RachelisFacebook]

Okay, so I went out last night for my first college clubbing experience. Standing there awkwardly talking to a friend, some man (who turns out I actually knew) is so wasted, he barely knows where he's at, and he spills his drink all over me and my friend. She asks, is it beer, and I feel my jeans where he spilled it, smell it, and it was beer. The next thing I said, humorously, was, at least I don't eat pants, because my friend knows about my Celiac disease. After that we got tired of feeling awkward so we left. I get back to my dorm, and eat some candy, and go to sleep.

I woke up this morning with symptoms of glutening, and thinking back I couldn't remember eating anything, and that's when it hit me. I didn't wash my hands after touching my jeans with beer on them. So that has to be it. I CC'd myself with the beer on my jeans.

So, really, the purpose of this is to kinda rant about how dumb I feel right now...but kinda also to make sure that this was a valid glutening. Or maybe to see if it was something else. So...I can gluten myself that way, right? Or do I have to do some more detective work to see if it was something else?

[kareng]

It's possible. The thing about beer is, some kinds have very very little gluten in them. If they are not wheat beers, which most aren't, they still have barley. But some of them have almost no barley either. So I guess I'm saying, briefly check what else you ate, incase.

[GlutenFreeManna]

I would not be surprised if you got glutened just being in that place. I mean some bars and clubs I remmeber from my college experience had the smell of beer in the air. And they are not exactly clean places, people spill and may spit a little while crowding in to talk to you....It would not take much to get glutened there and you probably have your culprit (touching your jeans). Do check the candy you ate though too.