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  1. Tim-n-VA
    Everything that I've read indicates that allergy and celiac are two different reactions to the wheat/gluten. The symptoms can be the same, the treatment essentially the same (don't eat it), but the underlying mechanism is different. You can be both, neither or one without the other.
  2. Tim-n-VA
    Since gluten from wheat is the protein in the grain, it is at least theoretically possible for someone with a gluten intolerance to have the other parts of the wheat. I mention this only because there is at least one product on the market as gluten-free that has wheat fiber. I am not advocating eating such products. There would be a high risk of cross...
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    Don't have a dramatic story but the lack of drama might be informative, depending on your audience, as it shows the health impact of asymptomatic celiac. No classic symptoms. Occasionally I'd have slight nausea - enough to wake you up but no vomiting, etc. Routine lab work as part of physicals, etc. showed fluctuation in liver function. That lead...
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    Sorry I can't be more specific but this weekend I was looking at canned frosting, milk chocolate flavored, and one of the three major brands listed wheat starch.
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    Does anyone have a link or list of common dental products that have gluten?
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    Everyone with this disase/condition takes chances if they ever eat something they didn't grow themselves and control each step to the plate. I haven't seen anything to contradict the "most likely" for corn. In a perfect world we would completely avoid something so vague. In the real world we sometimes get in a bind and modified food starch is a relatively...
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    One very likely scenario is that some celiacs have other conditions (diagnosed or not) that cause reactions to rice and other grains.
  8. Tim-n-VA
    But that is the point of this whole thread. You are using gluten intolerance and celiac as interchangable terms. The article I linked to in the second or third message makes a distinction. The point is that since different people use the same term for different situations, it is confusing.
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    Fiddle-Faddle - Most of your discussion focused on eventual villi damage. Do you think it is possible to have a "traditional" gluten allergy that causes some symptoms but never causes villi damage even with continued gluten consumption? If the answer is yes, there needs to be the distinction. If the answer is no, all of these terms can be used interchangably...
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    It shouldn't. If you go to web sites for advocacy groups or just read this board for a while you'll see that many people believe that you can have reactions to gluten for many different reasons, some that are not related to celiac. There was a thread on this board a few months ago where the celiac/allergy, celiac/no allergy, non-celiac/allergy combinations...
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    The problem, based on my limited experience, is that gluten intolerance is not a phrase that has a standard definiton. The article seems to take a more narrow view of GI being those gluten reactions that don't clearly fit the celiac or allergy definition. If Enterlab is testing for antibodies, they are testing for either celiac or an allergy which aren...
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    I would settle for an "allergy" week where all of their regular shows picked a different allergy/intolerance each day. Monday could be lactose, Tuesday gluten, etc.
  13. Tim-n-VA
    There is an explanation at Open Original Shared Link disease.htm
  14. Tim-n-VA
    In the Sunday ads packet there is a four-page (full newspaper sized) ad from the American Gastroenterological Association. Most of the front page is an article titled "Could You Have Celiac Disease and Not Know It?". One of the sidebar boxes is "Hidden Gluten". Did they place this ad in any other papers other than the Washington Post? My carrier...
  15. Tim-n-VA
    As others have stated, they are good about labeling and generally I've had no problems with a couple of exceptions. I reacted once to Creamy Mushroom. My wife has no gluten intolerance but has a mushroom allergy. She reacted to a can of their soup that didn't list mushrooms as an ingredient. Any company could have cross contamination. We could...
  16. Tim-n-VA
    There is a lot of conflicting info. This is how I understand it for celiac: 1) Consume gluten 2) Body produces tTg 3) Damage occurs The confusion frequently arises when the level of tTg or the amount of damage is not detected (or not considered significant by a medical person). Is that correct?
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    If gluten sticks to the breadmaker to the point that you can't clean it all but it will come off into your gluten-free bread, is the solution to just throw away the first few loaves of gluten free bread? Bottom line is that you can get a lot of information here but at some point you have to balance risk, convenience and budget for yourself.
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    I believe. My sister-in-law is on a new diet about every six months. Last summer it was the blood type diet that told her to eliminate wheat. She had no symptoms and no lab tests. She just saw it as a way to lose weight. Didn't work.
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    We recently were planning to buy one but found a Sunbeam stand mixer with more watts for less money. The attachments were similar (all the same in the subset I thought I'd actually use - my old one had a meat grinder that we never used). Can't argue with Kitchen Aide for quality but if others reading this thread have a budget consideration, at least look...
  20. Tim-n-VA
    I do agree that the classic celiac diagnosis is overly restrictive. However, most of what I've read indicates that there are two distinct types of reactions to gluten - allergy and autoimmune. While they have similar symptoms in some people, the internal mechanisms are different.
  21. Tim-n-VA
    No scientific basis here but based on comments I've read... Some possible explanations: 1) The celiac was dormat and then started due to some trigger (as mentioned above) 2) The celiac wasn't dormant but you were asymptomatic (possible villi damage that wasn't tested for). This is most likely in an otherwise healthy person whose body is able to...
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    I've been out of school more years than I like to think about, but to be completely technical isn't the answer that heat can destroy gluten but you don't get that level of heat in any household applicance. I seem to recall that someone posting here that propane grills are not an issue for holding gluten - is that because they can get hotter than an oven...
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    The actress who plays Addison will have her own show this fall. Don't know if it is the same character...
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    I have taken the Gluten-Free Pantry Sandwich Bread mix and the French Bread mix, prepared it for conventional oven but poured a small amount into a small round baking dish. I used a corningware bowl that we had but if you plan to do this a lot I have seen mini-springform pans that might work better. You have to experiment a little to get the right thickness...
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