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Scott, there are medical articles on the internet affirming that celiac disease, micro-colitis and other digestive issues can set up shop later in life after treated giardia lamblia. I believe my Giardia was probably treated with metronidazole. And like most Americans I have been treated with various antibiotics over the course of my lifetime. Once a person...
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I highly doubt that the damage done to the intestines by giardia lamblia infection can ever be undone. I am 72 year old female who contracted giardia lamblia in Mexico at the age of 17. The giardiasis was successfully treated several months later. However, decades later I became first lactose intolerant, and then gluten-intolerant. I suffer from fructose...
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Beware Shelled Nuts
Ramncats replied to Ramncats's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
Nuts.com does say their nuts gluten-free nuts, but on their website they list that dairy (lactose) is on the equipment used to process the nuts. On the bags I ordered from them, this disclaimer is absent (about peanuts and dairy). They can’t claim the nuts are vegan because of the possibility of milk contamination. -
Beware Shelled Nuts
Ramncats replied to Ramncats's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
I was diagnosed in 2011. I had eaten some of the almonds in the early autumn (several months ago); it may have been the pecan pieces I bought just before Xmas that had the mist profound impact on my intestines. I began having loose stools, being unable to tolerate any cheese or dairy even with using Lactaid enzymes, and unable to comfortably digest fructose... -
I was being insidiously contaminated by eating shelled nuts (almonds and pecans). Many brands of nuts are processed on equipment shared by food containing wheat and dairy. It had not occurred to me that I needed to read the label on a bag of unsalted almonds. Oh how wrong I was!! Now it will be probably about 4 months until my guts are healed. This is a very...