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knitty kitty reacted to a post in a topic:
Calcium dosage
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Happy to help. The reason they say not to take calcium together with iron is that calcium inhibits iron absorption. So it's not specifically dangerous to take the calcium with food containing iron, as long as you understand that the iron in that food will not be properly absorbed. So, if you were relying on that food to meet your daily iron requirement...
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knitty kitty reacted to a post in a topic:
Calcium dosage
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Knitty kitty is right on the money. Calcium and magnesium are a balancing act and most people get too little of both. Magnesium bisglycinate, sometimes just labeled "glycinate" (same molecule) is much more easily absorbed than the inorganic forms like magnesium oxide and I recommend bisglycinate to nearly everyone, celiac or not. As KK already said,...
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Milk powder
newtonfree replied to Eldene's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
There are a few issues in your original post that should probably be addressed separately. Casein is a milk protein, so right off the bat, that product certainly isn't vegan if that's your concern. There is also some evidence of cross-reactivity between casein and gluten in terms of the antibodies we form as celiacs. Personally, I challenged dairy... -
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Is Equate All Day Back & Muscle Pain Relief [naproxen Sodium 200 mg] gluten free?
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Scott Adams reacted to a post in a topic:
Is Equate All Day Back & Muscle Pain Relief [naproxen Sodium 200 mg] gluten free?
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Scott Adams reacted to a post in a topic:
Is Equate All Day Back & Muscle Pain Relief [naproxen Sodium 200 mg] gluten free?
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The most serious adverse effects of thiamine are usually seen with parenteral (IV) forms that we commonly administer to patients such as alcoholics. There's debate as to whether it was a direct effect or a result of older vehicles or contaminants (we used to use premixed solutions of the various things we needed to give alcoholics, called "banana bags" after...
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Correct, NSAIDs independently can cause NSAID-induced enteropathy like I mentioned above. But it's early days in terms of understanding it. And we will preferably use clinical data when we can get it, rather than making assumptions based on first principles. In the case of the first study we talked about, it was very interesting to me that NSAID use was such...
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Scott Adams reacted to a post in a topic:
Is Equate All Day Back & Muscle Pain Relief [naproxen Sodium 200 mg] gluten free?
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No, that is not at all the conclusion supported by the data. This is why I laid out my analysis above. The odds ratio for PPI, NSAID and SSRI use were each on the order of 1.5-1.7, meaning those groups were about 50%-70% more likely to have unhealed villi (though saying even that much is a stretch, since the 95% confidence interval dipped as low as ...
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A few quick notes on why that study makes me think, "I'd like to learn more," but not, "this is worth hanging my hat on." 1) Multivariate analysis is tremendously opaque and therefore difficult to audit for errors and biases. It's good for pointing us in a direction that may be worth examining, but is several steps of abstraction away from the kind of...
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Trents is actually correct that chronic NSAID use can damage villi, and it's not a "one in a million" chance or anything like that. We call it NSAID-induced enteropathy, and it has only recently come to our collective attention just how common and serious it may be. There have been some preliminary studies, like one that found signs of small bowel injury...
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I have read some direct testing reports of Tylenol and Advil products that did not detect any gluten. If you are reacting to medications, it may be independent of gluten - people can have sensitivities and allergies to the dyes and other ingredients used in medications. Seeing an allergist about this would be a high priority in my opinion. The...
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Dole Bananas
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Trying to figure out my probability of having celiac disease
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newtonfree replied to StrongerThanCeliac's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
A good point (also, thanks for not pointing out my typo in the paragraph you quoted - I should have said "one non-gluten food" rather than "non-wheat" since, of course, rye and barley at not wheat but certainly contain gluten!). And yes, oats are in the same subfamily as barley, rye and wheat, but chimpanzees and gorillas are all in the same subfamily... -
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newtonfree replied to StrongerThanCeliac's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
As a doctor, I agree with most of what you say here. In the case of my own symptoms, I've been thinking along the lines of OAS and true food allergies, since my symptoms are of the classic allergic constellation. But the one thing I disagree with in this post is the statement, "At this time, there is no scientific basis for eliminating non-gluten foods... -
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newtonfree replied to StrongerThanCeliac's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
Be wary of the "a little information is a dangerous thing" phenomenon. As has been pointed out, bananas are I) high histamine, II) capable of causing direct food allergy, and III) capable of cross-reacting in oral allergy syndrome. Trusting a random Google hit that mentions lectins as "the answer" could blind you to the alternative answers that may be... -
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newtonfree replied to StrongerThanCeliac's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
All solid advice. I do generally treat everything I have to eliminate right now as "eliminated...for now" with the hope that, as I heal, they may return (because I know for certain that at least some of them should return, in some form and/or quantity). But you're right that it's like a hurricane, and I'm in the cleanup and rebuilding process. My... -
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newtonfree replied to StrongerThanCeliac's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
Interesting, the bananas were always raw but the plantains were cooked and still produced exactly the same symptoms despite my intense wishes that they wouldn't. Maybe it's not OAS, then. The symptoms seemed consistent with it, but the cooked plantains were exactly as bad as the fresh bananas. -
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newtonfree replied to StrongerThanCeliac's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
Flippin' heck. The tongue itching/burning and throat symptoms are very similar to what I get, and I also had a mini flare of my DH recently, around the same time as the OAS type symptoms. I basically pared my diet down to a low FODMAP AIP diet recently in order to try to settle everything down, as I'm recently diagnosed and haven't been gluten-free terribly...