My poor childhood was filled with the crappy cheap cereal. Puffed wheat was the primary. The last few weeks I’ve been craving it bad for some reason? I don’t know why. I’m an adult I can eat what ever I want for breakfast. I was surprised to find it took a few stores to find one that still sold it so I bought two bags, pleased with myself and had a big bowl the next day.
Not even an hour later my stomach feels off. I’m sick to my stomach, the feeling gets worse. In the span of three hours I’ve thrown up four times. Through out the day my stomach starts to make illegal gurgle noises and HURT. I am baffled. Was it the dinner my sister cooked the other night? No one else is sick.
The next day is agony. I have sour egg burp, my stomach is round and painful to touch. I can’t even walk without whimpering in pain. I’m panting for air, my heart is trying vainly to keep me upright and it’s failing. The horrible gurgle noises inside me are awful. Jostling around like I’m a barrel full of diarrhea. So so much. Non stop. It’s day two and a fever hits. I am very concerned now. The fuck did I do?
I google puffed wheat sore stomach. I feel stupid as fuck. Mind you I eat bread and pasta just fine but apparently from the span of age 13 to 37 I have developed an insane allergic reaction to the pure wheaty goodness. :(
Who wants my second bag? Can I feed it to the birds?
TL;DR: I am allergic to wheat
"Illegal gurgle noises" been there
Right, your stomach should NOT make those noises ever
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correct, but you're also a bot so idk
I feel you, had my gallbladder out. Its tragic what I cannot eat now
I'm currently awake at 3 am because of these noises
Waiting for the inevitable.
With the painful bloating you describe, you might look into sensitivity to high FODMAP foods. Essentially, some of our bodies encourage foods to ferment faster, and, paired with a slower to move gastric process, the belly fills with really painful gas. Can lead to vomiting/diarrhea when the pressure gets too bad
Very disturbing!! It may be that you coincidentally got the norovirus, that would be my 1st thought as no other wheat product does this to you!
Yeah, I had the same insane, painful bloating, followed by 36 hours of vomiting and diarrhea.
Norovirus.
Yes! Can also explain the sudden random craving. Often happens before a viral derailment. Hope OP feels better soon!
This one time, when I had kidney stones, I also had enteric parasites and food poisoning. It was frightening. Shooting out both ends I called two friends in the dead of night, just to be with me. Then sought treatment at the ER where I worked.
Omg!! How very, scary, awful
I’ll look into this, thank you! I already have ulcerative colitis so my body hates me lol, this probably set off a chain reaction.
If you have UC, what's more than likely happened is that the hulls left over on the puff is what kicked it into high gear.
Came here to vote for FODMAP. If that's what it is, you are lucky (it could be worse). FODMAPS are certain high carbohydrate foods that for some reason your gut fails to properly digest; instead they are allowed to ferment, creating your symptoms. IMO in my case for some reason my gut 'forgot' how to digest them.
You must examine the FODMAP diet and start by eliminating all high-FODMAP foods. This is actually easier than conforming to the BRAT diet!
Gradually re-introduce foods into your diet until you react again; then you will know who the culprits are!
Best of luck to you!
Are you sure this isn't stomach flu? Having a fever is not typical of wheat allergy or celiac and two days is a long time for a food allergy.
It might be? You would think I would have given it to family that was over though, but I AM on day three
You could probably donate the second bag to a food bank. Would also be a good idea to follow up with an actual doctor!
Totally agree! Giving to a food bank helps someone in need, and a check-in with a doctor is always smart.
I'm sorry you had such a bad experience with your childhood nostalgia breakfast! Honestly though, it would be extremely unlikely that you would be allergic to wheat only in one form (like puffed wheat cereal) but tolerate bread, pasta and other wheat products without any symptoms. Wheat allergy usually causes a reaction to proteins in wheat regardless of the form, whether it’s flour, cereal, pasta, or bread.
Acute viral gastroenteritis (“stomach flu”) is by far the most common cause of sudden vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and severe abdominal gurgling. It can definitely hit 1–12 hours after eating, which makes people think it was the food. Your symptoms (repeated vomiting, watery diarrhea, fever, bloating, egg-burps, stomach noises) exactly track with this diagnosis. Getting a fever strongly points away from allergy and toward infection.
If you don't find another explanation it might be wise to get checked for food allergies and related conditions like celiac. Given it was a cereal did you have it with dairy? When we age we often lose the ability to digest lactose any more as well.
Lactose free diary yea. I normally use almond milk but my sister needed “normal” milk for a recipe and I had some left over lol, I didn’t want to waste it…
That could explain it?
If you usually have non-dairy milk you might have had a reaction to the milk proteins in the lactose free milk
Rotten egg burps is food poisoning.
Was your milk bad?
No it was good milk, just not milk I’m used to anymore(I normally use almond milk, this was lactose free 1 percent)
almond milk does not have animal proteins. lactose free milk is actual milk from an animal and does. this seems like the more likely culprit than the cereal if you have no trouble with bread or pasta.
You may have gotten the vomit virus and be able to eat wheat.
“a barrel full of diarrhea” absolutely sent me
That can also just be a volume issue. Your big bowl might have been like 6 servings all at once. Any dramatic diet change can cause this, whether you try to eat 4 steaks in a day or drink 4 liters of milk or eat six watermelons.
You really really need to get a celiac panel blood test. I'm not a doctor and can't diagnose you but I can say, this sounds extremely similar to my symptoms leading up to getting the blood test and finding out I have celiac disease.
You NEED to be eating gluten regularly for the blood test to be accurate (if you eat gluten free for a while and then get the test, it will be a false negative even if you do actually have celiac - some doctors don't know this but it's true) so the order of operations is GET THE BLOOD TEST ASAP, keep eating gluten until you get the results, because if the test is positive you need to get an endoscopy to confirm celiac disease, which also is a false negative if you go gluten free - they are looking for damage to your intestines which won't be there if you eat gluten free).
THEN you can stop eating wheat and gluten. If you are celiac it's gonna change your life. Good luck and I hope for your sake it's something else. Celiac sucks.
Sure! The birds will love it and I wake up in the morning feeling like shit /S Actually, in Costa Rica now where the local Hotel puts out about five loafs of bread every day. I talked to the owner about maybe changing up the routine, because feeding birds every day makes them dependent on you, and less dependent on their natural diet. Many years ago I had an aunt that was in the process of being arrested by the state that she lived in for feeding ducks in the winter. The local game Warden said, because of her ducks were dying from bad eating habits. But one bag of cereal should be no problem. (mandatory disclaimer..... I am not an ornithologist)
So I am not celiac, but I believe that all Americans (especially) are sensitive to wheat. I can tolerate quite a bit, but after a second Pizza, in the same week, I can definitely feel the symptoms. Very inflammatory to my system. And I believe at least slightly inflammatory to everybody's system. Not a doctor but I don't think it's wheat as much as how we grow it and modified it over the years. Feel better soon!
Oooh I don’t want to cause bird issues :( there are so many feeders around here though. I didn’t know you could be arrested for it, damn.
She lived in a smaller town and went to every bakery within 40 miles to get their stale bread, and had literal trash cans, full of breadcrumbs. She put out tons (maybe an actual number not an exaggeration), there was a bridge that crossed the lake, not too far from their house and every winter there would be thousands of ducks year-round. She was seriously impacting nature, she thought for the good the state thought it was unhealthy. We're talking the equivalent of thousands of bags of cereal. She was warned frequently, would quit for a week or two, feel bad and start again. They eventually told her they would arrest her if they ever saw any bread in the water.
Jesus that’s going to an inane level on her part
Seriously! When we were kids, we used to revel in going into her garage and filling a 5 gallon pail to feed the ducks. We thought it was pretty cool, but now being older and wiser I realize you are really messing with the balance of nature when you do that. They ran a small motel on the side of the road and that was an attraction for them. The little kids could feed the ducks. I wonder what it did for the water quality at their beach.
Bread is very bad for birds: https://thebackyardnaturalist.com/wordpress/resources/bread-is-bad-for-birds/
Sounds like what I’ve had for the last week
I love puffed rice but there's barely a nutrient in there.
The eggy burps are from your stomach not moving food along, it sits there and breaks down. It's a mild gastroparesis. I've had that many times but once it was because I ate half a box of wheat thins. I'm not allergic, I just overdid it. I have no wheat allergy.
Don't feed it to the birds. It doesn't have a whole lot of nutritional value for them and it's probably full of sugar or corn syrup and chemicals. Feeding it to them once won't hurt them. But more often than that they will fill up on it and not eat the foods that they are supposed to be eating. And then fall ill from malnutrition.
There’s no sugar or corn syrup it’s just puffed wheat! But I won’t feed it to them don’t worry, I’m going to drop the un opened bag and some other stuff at the food bank drop in, and a real box of cereal lol
Why do you hate birds?
Wait that's not food poisoning....? That's allergies? Oh my, there might be a bunch of stuff I'm allergic to
It seems I’m wrong? I might have just caught a bad stomach food that just happened to show up at the same time? I dunno
ohh! thanks for letting me know!
Ever had puffed rice? That shit was even worse. Sorry about your stomach!
Bicarbonate of soda (Alka Seltzer) is great for allergic stomach reactions.
this is why "harmless" childhood staples can wreck us as adults... our guts change more than we think. glad you figured it out before it got wo
Many also are made with different ingredients now so they can affect is differently than as kids.
You're allergic to American wheat, and all the crap that's added to it!!!
ETA: There's a reason that (some) American bread/cereal isn't allowed to be sold in Europe, due to the additives in it.
More likely they had a norovirus, especially since they had a fever.
not only the additives but the pesticides. a ton of people here in the us aren't allergic to wheat but rather have reactions to the fertilizer and pesticides