Gluten Free And Working In A Bakery

[TevyIndgio]

I work next to a bakery and I was wondering if that could harm me. Since going gluten free, I've noticed that I tend to feel unwell at work. I have started getting mild headaches and loosing my appetite at work. I was wondering if working next to all the bread making and inhaling the scents might be making me have an allergic reactions.

I can be sensitive to smells, so it could be that smelling the sweets and breads is just off putting to me. I just wanted to make sure that I'm not hurting myself by working in close proximity to so much gluten.

[MelindaLee]

If I am reading this right, you are not actually working in the bakery. Airborne flour could make you sick as it would get into your eyes and nose and could therefore get into your stomach. If you aren't actually working in the bakery, I can't imagine how just the smell would make you sick.

[Cypressmyst]

Oh I can imagine it. I live it every time I leave my house it seems like. (I'm a hermit and live in the country/work from home )

You are getting sick from being so close to that bakery, flour tends to linger in the air for some 4-6 hours and it coats everything it touches.

I'm willing to wager that your adrenals are mega exhausted like mine and so that is why you are more sensitive to this stuff. It isn't that other people aren't also being poisoned it is just that they don't notice it like you and I do.

Find a good functional medicine doctor and look into healing your leaky gut. This will help with your overt sensitivity. (It has already with mine and I'm only one month into the healing process (7 months gluten-free).

In the mean time can you switch offices or anything of the sort?

You know...until this poison is taken off the shelves once and for all?

[WheatChef]

For most people all that's required to have a reaction is for enough of gluten to touch your mucus membranes. These membranes line the digestive tract as well as your respiratory tract. ie: Congratulations! You now have perfect incentive to find a job that will net you a pay raise, or one that's less of a commute, better hours, better benefits, etc.