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Think I Just Added Dh To My Symptoms

SGWhiskers

By SGWhiskers
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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SGWhiskers Collaborator
SGWhiskers
Posted

As if I needed more frustration right now. This is the second time in my pregnancy that I've been cross contaminated. I'm still in the midst of feeling like mud and now I'm itching. Last time I was glutened, I got 2 little itchy bumps inside my elbow. I figured they were nothing and would go away. A month later, they hadn't and I started to wonder about them. Then the gluten in the split peas or something else. Now there are 15 itchies in that elbow and the other arm is itching up a storm without spots yet. I'm frustrated, headachy, tired, itchy, pregnant, cranky and afraid to eat anything since I aparently got glutened on food I thought was safe. Grrrr. If it is DH, is it worth a biopsy? If it is DH how long will it take to fade if I don't get glutened again? Is it OK to itch it, or will that make it worse or scar worse?

Good night from Ms. Cranky Pants.

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nora-n
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Hi, I just wanted to mention that often those with DH are of the very sensitive to gluten celiacs.

dilettantesteph Collaborator
dilettantesteph
Posted

My son has DH (13 years old). He gets it from things that I eat and don't seem to react to. I listen to his DH though and stop eating those things. I'm very sensitive and he is more so. It seems like when he eliminates the thing with gluten in it his DH starts improving by the next day. By about 3 days it is gone. It seems to show up the next day after he eats something contaminated. I hope that you can figure out what it is. The last time we found that we had to wash and peel our peaches and not just wash them. Things like that are really hard to figure out and seem totally crazy. It took a long while for us to consider something like that.

cassP Contributor
cassP
Posted

i dont know enough about it, and i think for the first time i have some on my stomach.

from other posts ive seen on here- i THINK it's possible to still have the DH for some time even after going gluten free- is that true??

curiousgirl Contributor
curiousgirl
Posted

We need a list of acronyms and what they stand for...please? What the heck is DH?

Sometimes I think I know what CC is, but then I read it in another post that seems to be using it for a different reason....

D = Diarrhea

CC = Cross Contamination?

DH = ??

Etc.

Etc.

Etc.

Charlie's Girl Apprentice
Charlie's Girl
Posted

Ohh Poor Baby Miss Cranky Pants. This is all so annoying at times, isn't it? I feel for you Momma.

(I've got a raging "atypical dermatitis"- or some such BS diagnosis- and it is just awful)

Perhaps you could use a little mind over matter. I have read posts here where people write about how much BETTER they felt when pregnant. Start a thread asking for everyone's GREAT experiences with symptoms disappearing when they were pregnant- might be uplifting???? Maybe? :unsure:

Come on everyone- let's think good thoughts for SGWhiskers to have an easy and effortless pregnancy and delivery!

lovegrov Collaborator
lovegrov
Posted

Why would you get tested for DH unless you are thinking about taking dapsone?

As for acronyms, CC is cross contamination and DH is dermatitis herpetiformis, which is essentially a skin version of celiac.

richard

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ravenwoodglass Mentor
ravenwoodglass
Posted

We need a list of acronyms and what they stand for...please? What the heck is DH?

Sometimes I think I know what CC is, but then I read it in another post that seems to be using it for a different reason....

D = Diarrhea

CC = Cross Contamination?

DH = ??

Etc.

Etc.

Etc.

D is diarrhea, CC cross contamination, DH can be either the skin form of celiac or can stand for dear husband, DD is dear daughter, DS dear son, C is constipation, IMHO is in my humble opinion, hope this helps.

curiousgirl Contributor
curiousgirl
Posted

D is diarrhea, CC cross contamination, DH can be either the skin form of celiac or can stand for dear husband, DD is dear daughter, DS dear son, C is constipation, IMHO is in my humble opinion, hope this helps.

Thank you! How many more can we come up with??

RX = prescription

DX = diagnosis

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