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  1. ravenwoodglass
    Welcome to the boards you have found a great place. First have you cut out dairy products? The villi that are damaged are needed to produce the enzyme that digests milk. It will help you heal faster if drop it for a while then add it back in cautiously. Another thing that is kind of important at first is to go with only naturally gluten free foods...
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    I would actually suspect the frozen rice milk more than the chocolate sauce. I would continue to trust this restaurant but make it loud and clear that I needed gluten free, as in after everything I say I would say, now that is gluten-free right? Maybe on your next visit you could ask them what the difference is or even call and ask.
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    I was able to get something fairly edible by adding yeast or baking soda. Then I found the Gluten Free Pantry's French Bread mix and have never looked back.
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    I found this by googling caltrate and gluten. It appears to be safe. If your a vegetarian though the gelatin comes from beef. Open Original Shared Link Is Caltrate gluten-free? Yes, Caltrate is a gluten-free product.
  5. ravenwoodglass
    The first nuts with the 'made in...' caution undoubtedly got you. I avoid all products with this statement. As to the nuts on the sundae, it could have been CC with the nuts, it could have also been gluten in the sauce or even Cc from the restaurant itself. I have learned the hard way to avoid restautants like the plague. I have been poisoned every...
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    The best thing you can do is to go to a major search engine like google, put in the full name of the product and the word gluten. This will bring up links that will give you lists, sometimes even from the company itself of their gluten free items. If you don't find the answer that way there should be phone number on the package. If neither of these work...
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    This was quoted from the link you gave above: "Antibodies are not the cause of the disease state, they are a by-product of the key inflammatory process. " And in people with gluten intolerance the cause of this inflammatory response is..........gluten. Remove the gluten and the antibody response will be removed also.
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    Yep and I bet if you look at people the ones whose ancesters hailed from those areas where wheat did not naturally grow may be the most likely to get celiac when they eat gluten. I feel so sorry for countries where there are natural or manmade disasters and no matter what their native diet we send them wheat or high gluten fortification for their food. ...
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    They are mistaken. This is why even if a supplement label says gluten free we need to very carefully read the ingredients.
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    Suave makes some great gluten-free lotions and hair products. And you don't have to be a chemist to figure out if they are safe. They do make a couple with oats but they are labeled clearly. A new skin line that I found and verified many products on is Garnier Nutritioniste I started using their products on my face a month or two ago and have been very...
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    I have to go with the person who said you don't have to drink at all. Alcohol is tricky, many are okay with some distilled grains, but many are not. The time to figure out whether you tolerate a 7&7 is when you are completely well. You need to challenge alcohol the same way you would a suspect food. In a moderate amount like a couple drinks after...
  12. ravenwoodglass
    Welcome to the board. You've found a great place for info and support. Yes, you can be angry and sad. But you can also be glad that you have found the answer in time to prevent a lifetime of misery and permanent problems. Especially for your son. Life would have been so different for mine if I could have somehow known.
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    Not to be negative here but..... I have been strictly, very strictly gluten-free now for almost 5 years. I have not even caught a cold. My personal take on this is that my body had built up a 'hyperdrive' immune response in response to my constant glutenings. I was always catching everything before I was gluten-free because my immune system was too busy...
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    It seems from looking at dates that the D became worse after she started the probiotics. Personally I would stop them until this bout is done with.
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    Keep her on that, no tea or coffee (that will be too irritating to her GI tract right now) Then get a hold of her doctor Monday at the latest. It would not hurt to call her doctors service now and leave a message if the blood is pooling at the bottom of the bowl. If she is having blood that is seeping even when she is not on the toilet or you are noticing...
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    Ursa is very correct on the withdrawl aspect, I hadn't even thought of that. Hang in there and I hope things improve soon.
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    If needed they do laproscopic surgery and cut the adhesions, which are scar tissue, in order to free the organ that is effected. They usually do this if the adhesions are causing a stricture like forming around the bowel and narrowing it or if the adhesions are 'linking' organs that should not be linked, and I'm sure there are other reasons. Unfortunately...
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    Your first test was a low positive, it was the same as my DH. He has felt fantastic, lost bloat and weight and skin problems and has much clear thought processes since he stopped gluten even with this low of a positive. Are you gluten free? Have you tried it strictly for at least a couple months? If so how did you feel? Your second test is in the...
  19. ravenwoodglass
    There is an artery called the celiac artery but it's name has nothing to do with the disease. Celiac does cause inflammation and can cause it in the blood vessels. I am glad you checked this out with your doctor. When you are saying you are doing no carbs does that mean that you have also cut veggies out of your diet? They are a good source of fiber and...
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    It is also in so many ways so sad. The testing for celiac and gluten intolerance is so inadaquate in terms of false negatives. Most doctors don't even suggest the diet they just give us pills, or worse tell us it is 'all in our heads'. So many lives cut short and so many desperate people that just want to be well. And so, so many ignorant doctors. I...
  21. ravenwoodglass
    Yep, fruits, veggies, and flax seed are a just few of your best for sure gluten free fiber sources.
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    Considering that you all got glutened, your house is gluten-free, the baby had a rash before the house became gluten-free, that rash cleared up and now you guys have rashes. Yes this is definately connected. Whether it is actually DH I don't know and you would need to have them biopsy the area next to the rash when the rash was active to tell. Sounds like...
  23. ravenwoodglass
    "But won't you be confounding things if you introduce one thing and take out another? What if you negatively react to both but in different ways? If I were you, I would take out dairy and still keep gluten out. See if you feel better. Once you resolve whether dairy impacts you, you can still challenge with gluten if you wish" This was exactly what I was...
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    My thought also was to do both at once, if she is going to have them done. Or if you are diagnosed since it is genetic maybe she could get them to do the endo first. They seem to have it backwards here and it is so 'disappointing' to hear after a colonoscopy that everything looks great just eat more fiber. Or perhaps she might want to try the diet for...
  25. ravenwoodglass
    You and your sister and I sound like we have similar histories. I was told everything was in my head for years as they fed me more and more toxic meds that barely controlled symptoms. I was tested over and over for MS, Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthrits, you name they have stuck a needle in it, Xrayed and MRI'd. By the time I was diagnosed I had lost all hope...
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