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  1. GFinDC
    - Can burping indicate a gluten sensitivity? Yes, an upset, irritated digestive system can cause lots of symptoms, including burping, ie excess gas in the stomach. - Do symptoms only appear directly after eating gluten? No, symptoms do not only appear directly after eating gluten. The digestive system is irritated all the time, so symptoms can occur...
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    Hi Celeste, Are you taking any vitamins with selenium? Selenium affects is used in hormone production in the body. So it is important to have enuff of it for your body hormones to be produced. Yo can test for selenium deficit by eating a couple braziil nuts. They have a lot of selenium in them. You can get too much of it if you over doit, so it ...
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    Hi CeZaR, She should keep eating gluten until the testing is completed. She might be able to get in sooner if they have a standby list for openings. Often people have worse symptoms from returning to eating gluten after being off it for awhile. So stopping gluten for a couple weeks and restarting it won't be fun. She doens't need to eat a lot fo gluten...
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    Hi Cindy, The symptoms fo rceliac disease adn NCGI (noon-celaic gluten intolerance) are teh same. So the answer to your question is, yes, it sounds like both of them! Ask your doctor about celiac testing. But usually you have to be eating gluten for 6 weeks or so to get accurate results. There is no standard medical testing for NCGI yet. But...
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    Hi Seeking, I wanted to offer a reason the heavy metal theory may not make sense for a cause of celiac disease. There are certain genes associated with celiac disease, and the people with those genes are the ones who tend to get develop celiac disease. Other people don't get it. Heavy metals wouldn't discriminate based on people's genes right? There...
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    Hi Flyer'sgurl, Be sure to drink plenty of water if you take the metamucil. It works better with lots of water. I'm pretty sure metamucial is just psyilium husks with flavorings added. So you could just get plain psyilium husks instead. Another way to take it is to mix it into food you are eating. It makes a good thickener for soups and gravy etc...
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    Hi Dmarie, When your digestive system is irritated and not working right things go kinda wrong. Gut bacteria can get out of balance and multiply and make lots of gas. If your gut flora is messed up, you can be gassy from eating just about anything. Some starting the gluten-free diet tips for the first 6 months: Get tested before starting the gluten...
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    Hi Gena, Welcome to the forum! The celiac antibodie tests are listed below. You should have all of them done at once. Be sure to keep eating gluten like regular until all ltesting is complete. Testing usually starts with a blood draw for antibodie tests and then is followed up with an endoscopy to take biopsy samples from the small intestine....
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    Hi Gilligan, Thanks for responding. The thing is, people who follow the gluten-free diet for reasons other than celiac disease may not have the same motivation to be strictly 100% gluten-free. They aren't nessecarily going to have an autimmoune reaction to slight amounts of gluten or cross-contamination like a celiac would. So the advice they would...
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    I was thinking it might be good to have a section of the forum for non-celiacs who are following the gluten-free diet. There lots of people interested in eating gluten-free these days for various reasons. Celiac disease is one very important reason to eat gluten-free. But other people might want to eat gluten-free because they have health issues that...
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    Hi Fenrir, The link below will take you to a series of articles about the liver and celiac disease. Some light reading for your weekend entertainment. My understanding is that liver enzymes are often elevated in untreated celiac disease due to cell death releasing toxins into the blood stream. I am thinking they call that cell apoptosis or some such...
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    Hi Fenrir, Yes, liver enzymes can be elevated in celiac. They should return to normal after being gluten-free for a while, maybe 6 months or so. Mildly positive results don't equate to a mild case of celiac. The antibody reaction is mostly in the gut, so anti-bodies in the bloodstream are lower. They concentrate in the gut where they do the damage...
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    Maybe some of the search results for high b-12 levels will be helpful. Some suggest it could indicate liver issues, some suggest other things. I wonder if it's possible that the body just can't utilize the B-12 properly in some people? It seems like I read something about that once but I don't remember where. Open Original Shared Link
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    Hi Eclara, You may have screwed up, but that puts you right in the midst of a goodly number of us who screwed up before you! Treating our condition seems to involve quite a bit of trial and error at times. My understanding is the rifaximin is an antibiotic. That you improved when you started it seems to mean you did have a problem with your gut flora...
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    Hi FE, A couple other things that can cause slow digestion are diabetes and thyroid problems. It would be good to have some testing to eliminate those as a possible cause.
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    You can try some natural treatments for h. pylori. If they help, then it is probably and h. pylori infection causing the pain.. Some that may help are mastic gum, and DGL. I suggest taking both at once. If they don't help after a week, then it may be something else causing the pain. H pylori is a problem sometimes when people are taking antacids too...
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    Welcome Colton! Two weeks is just the rough beginning of the gluten-free diet. For some people withdrawal symptoms can go on for a couple weeks. For many it seems like 6 months to get basically healed is about right, but it can take years for some. It helps during healing to eat a simple diet, without lots of hot spicy stuff. The less irritation...
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    I hope your foot heals sooner rather than later Julie. From what I understand, healing is slow for people if their blood sugar is out of whack/high. So, hopefully you will get it back to a normal range and keep it there for a while. I am kind of surprised you are drinking soda. Sugarfee soda is better than regular soda for diabetics, but it's not a great...
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    You can ask them to provide fresh fruit and salads without croutons. You may be able to get cooked vegetables from them as long as they understand the cc risk of sharing spoons ladles etc. Another thing is they could cook you meats in a separate clean skillet instead of the grill. Or serve frozen meats that they just warm up in the nuker.
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    I saw a whole display of Bob' Red Mill items at an Odd Lots store recently. Prices were somewhat lower but not super low. But it did surprise me to see it there.
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    Hi, Ref #3: It's not being picky to want to maintain your health. Everyone (who isn't suicidal) wants to maintain their health. That's why there are so many vitamin supplements and doctor programs on TV etc. And other kinds of diets also. So all those people you are concerned may not understand are prolly just as concerned about their own health...
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    Yes, yes, u r berry, berry welcome here! Lots of people come to the forum to try and figure out if they have a gluten related issue, and their tests don't show it yet or maybe never. Since there is no accepted testing for NCGI, it leaves it up to us to figure out if we have it or not. Docs ain't much help at the moment. Even celiac testing has flaws...
  23. GFinDC
    Hi, dmarie, welcome to the forum! Some answers to your questions in red.
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    Hi, You may think you have stopped dairy, but kefir is made from dairy (usually), so you may not be as dairy-free as you think. Open Original Shared Link Kefir, keefir, or kephir (Open Original Shared LinkOpen Original Shared LinkOpen Original Shared LinkOpen Original Shared LinkOpen Original Shared LinkOpen Original Shared LinkOpen Original Shared...
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    They say coconut oil can help people with Alzheimer's sometimes. It might be something to try anyway.
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