<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> My husband was diagnosed with CD in 1985 and has kept totally gluten-free since then, except for hidden gluten contamination that occurs occasionally. He has so strictly adhered to the diet that when he ingests even a tiny bit of "hidden gluten" now, within one to two hours he endures an hour of diarrhea and vomitting, after which he goes into shock with severe shivers, icy cold skin but no loss of consciousness so far. There is little time between his beginning to feel sick and his gut reaction. Once it begins, he can't seem to keep anything in his system until he has completely expelled the gluten for the next hour or so. A recent example was just last week when he ate two pieces of gluten-free candy that were next to some oxic cookies. Apparently, a cookie crumb or two landed on the candy because he soon got very sick and then went into his usual shock. Has anyone experienced similar extreme gluten reactions and more important, what do you do, if anything, besides turning up the heat, covering the celiac including his head with blankets, and then providing liquids to replenish the lost fluids? Calling a gastro doctor late on a Sunday night is futile and emergency room doctors rarely know a thing about CD. I have not called an ambulance for the same reasons but I worry about what would happen to my husband if he were to get gluten poisoning sometime when I wasn't around. There is no way he could drive himself to a hospital and I doubt he could make enough sense on a phone call to get emergency response. I do have two calls in to our GI doctor for help with this but still have not heard from him. Please respond directly to me at <[log in to unmask]> as indicated above and I will summarize back to the List.