How do you know if you've been glutened or got a bug?

[codycat]

How do you differentiate between being glutened or having a bug? Is it symptoms, onset time etc?

[MTCee]

I would imagine that if you had a bug, you’d have a temperature? When I’ve been glutened, I get bad stomach pains, bloating, diarrhoea and nausea but I’ve never had a high temperature. Hope that helps.

[Whydothis]

The trouble is we all have slightly different symptoms. It is over a year since I was badly glutened, and I don't intend to let it happen again! In my case, the first, almost immediate symptom is bad mouth ulcers, followed by being unable to sleep at night, and then diarrhoea the next day. This last is recognisably coeliac diarrhoea, which in my case is very different to the food poisoning version.

Milder cross contamination glutening gives me the mouth ulcers and lack of sleep.

[Regalbirdy]

Hi Codycat,

In answer to your question, it feels different. Gluten gives me a pain in my gut down my left side and a deep attachment to my bathroom within about 90 minutes of ingestion; whereas a stomach bug is less specific.

However as someone else has said, it varies greatly from person to person.

[codycat]

Thank you so much for your response. Just needed some reassurance I feel. Like Regalbirdy my reaction is similar.

[Ukulelelady1]

A bug would go after a certain length of time, Coeliac disease won’t, you’ll continue to have symptoms as long as you’re eating gluten.