Just at a Lindt Milk Chocolate Bunny!

[Flowerpot108]

I gobbled the whole thing like a greedy piggy. 100g of it. Then I looked at the pack and say that it has bloody Barley Malt Extract!

Lindt FAQs says less than 20ppm. Which is enough for EU to call it gluten free. But I know some people react to less than 20ppm.

I'm really scared now because I'm bout to have a holiday and I really dont want to be sick.

I never get the vomiting or sickness. If anything I get hungrier. But I get very tired and my bones ache and I feel like I have a fever and then I dont absorb my medication for my thyroid condition and then my immune system flares up and kills more of my thyroid and I need an increased dose and it takes weeks to feel mild normal again.

Do you think I might have just triggered that again? I guess theres no way to find out and nothing I can do....could I make myself sick? Get it out? Do you think that would help?

[Hidden]

The deed is done, so doubt making yourself sick would help. Some people say taking baking soda absorbs some of the gluten issue, others argue in favour of activated charcoal. Either which way, if it's going to react, it's going to react. I have done this too many times also - trusting product, and finding it has a contentious ingredient. Don't beat yourself up over this, and you may actually be fine if it's within codex. Not everyone is ok with codex, but many are, so you may be one of the lucky ones. Time will tell.....

[Flowerpot108 in reply to Hidden]

Urgh I totally panicked and made myself sick. I was freaking out because one week I had marmite and soy sauce and maybe a barley squash drink but I cant remember if that was in the weeks before or that week. And I was really sick for ages. And even though those things are over 20ppm i just thought I had such a small amount of those...but I just at a whole bunny and I spiralled and made myself sick. Which I know we shouldn't advocate. I feel better mentally just knowing it's not in there... but whether it actually helps I dunno....as you say it had already been sat in there 2-3 hours so may have already done its harm.

[Hidden in reply to Flowerpot108]

It's a shame we have to go to extremes to stay well. I hope you are ok and no damage done. Such a shame - Lindt bunnie look very tempting.

[Flowerpot108 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you for your support 💕

[Cooper27]

Someone gives us a box of these every year, and I hate them! My partner (the coeliac) ate them the first couple of years, just 2-3 a night after dinner, and has always been fine but we regift them now just to be on the safe side.

You'll probably be ok if it wasn't a large amount but it depends how sensitive you are.

[Flowerpot108 in reply to Cooper27]

Yeah it's difficult cuz I've only been aware that gluten is a problem for me since August. Cutting it out solved so many issues but I'm still learning I guess how sensitive I am. It was quite a lot. 100g is definitely more than 2-3 chocolates, but I sicked it up so hopefully that helps...and maybe what got absorbed initially was about the same? So hopefully I'm the same as your partner!

[Cooper27 in reply to Flowerpot108]

How did you get on? Any reaction?

You can take activated charcoal if it happens again. It helps to absorb some of the gluten from your digestive tract, and can help ease symptoms (not a cure but it helps).

[Flowerpot108 in reply to Cooper27]

So I wanted to leave it a few days because sometimes it takes a while to hit. But I'm all good!!!! After vomiting I continued taking the anti histamines I take twice a day for hay fever (someone I know who is celiac says that helps her) and I ate alot of GF plain carbs cuz my stomach was sore and I was really hungry 😅 I also had a sore throat from the vomiting so GF icecream and Soup were used to help with that. Sore stomach and throat gone today and so I'm feeling blessed not to be suffering with a glutening through my holiday! I've been scanning EVERYTHING with that Celiac UK app which has helped. I usually shop in aldi but I noticed they dont have info on their products so I went to Tesco where they do just to play it safe. Becaaause I went to buy some food the other day and on the pack it didn't mention any gluten grains and then when I got to work o scanned it to be on the safe side and it said it did! It was the vegetable sushi from Tesco. So I reckon its probably the soy sauce, but it wasn't on the packet how bad is that?! Anyway I didn't eat any of it to be on the side side. Ironically this was the afternoon before I proceeded to gluten myself with the Lindt chocolate.

But yeah this app is a godsend.

[Cooper27 in reply to Flowerpot108]

We didn't get on well with Aldi. We shopped there a few times in the first year after partner was diagnosed, but he got glutened every time, on food they had declared was gluten free. We found a lot of coeliac's saying they had the same experience. If you tell them, they insist you must have gotten sick from something else you ate, or that you didn't prepare it safely (even if your home is 100% gluten free), so we just have up shopping there.

Tesco sushi used to have a gluten free stamp on it, but they introduced a chicken sushi that contained gluten, and removed the gluten free stamp. I emailed when they did to ask if their other lines were still safe, and actually had a response from a coeliac in the customer services dept who said it should be. We eat it quite a lot and partner never gets sick, so it's strange you have. Their soya sauce is definitely GF I can promise that much at least.

[Flowerpot108 in reply to Cooper27]

That's so weird! No I didn't get sick, I just didn't eat it cuz when I scanned it with the celiac app it said it had gluten in. But the ingredients list didn't mention any gluten so the app must just be mistaken! That's interesting.

Ooo good tip on Aldi thank you! That's terrible on their part

[Cooper27 in reply to Flowerpot108]

Ah ok, I follow you now. That's a shame if it isn't gluten free anymore, it's one of the only grab-and-go lunches we can get these days! I think it must be concern about cross contamination. Better take some tissues with me when I go break the news to my partner 😆

Hoping aldi might have changed their hygiene habits, you can always chance it. Our run-in was a few years ago now.

[Georgielouise]

All Lindt choc has barley in - stay away from it !

Not a lot you can do once you eat it and making yourself sick isn't a good thing to do.

Get a early night. You might be ok.... I had barley which was in choc a few weeks ago but I only had a little bit. I was ok - luckily. It was those crunchy rocks . My husband thought I could eat them because I eat crunches and I never thought to check as he is normally really good at checking labels etc. Silly mistake but it happens....

Hope you are ok though.