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  1. Takala
    Some items which may bother other people with celiac/gluten intolerance: millet - potential for cross contamination high, also reaction level medium for general population oats- this just kills it for a percentage of celiacs, even the gluten free oats soy, especially soy flours and soy milks - if you're using a legume flour, use something else...
  2. Takala
    Some brands and individual batches of a few kinds of "gluten free" foods may be cross contaminated with either gluten or another ingredient that you may be reacting to - if you ask, "how can this be ?" remember if you are in the U.S. we have no labeling standards at this time (Feb 2012) and everything re: gluten status disclosure is voluntary. Hence...
  3. Takala
    Fire this doctor's insurance money grubbing A$$, immediately, and find one who WILL work with you on your gluten intolerance. Don't bother making appointments or going to somebody who is just there to milk your insurance for whatever he or she can get out of it, extending the fake "diagnostic process" over as many years as possible, just for profit. Mine...
  4. Takala
    Eat more fats such as olive oil and coconut milk.
  5. Takala
    Maybe the "eczema" is really D.H. ? You could try for a skin biopsy next to the rash and see if that is positive - that is an official diagnostic route.
  6. Takala
    Trust your reactions. I've posted about this before when they mistakenly gave me the wrong flavor tea, and I was pretty indignant over it. But I've reacted enough to a few of their other mixed warm drinks that I have concluded it is better for me to avoid this company in my retail area of my state, because we could not resolve what was giving me a...
  7. Takala
    The frequent urination going away is a red flag for there being too little/too much calcium in the bloodstream, so the glands try to re - regulate it, ending up with it is being leached out of the bones due to the gut not working properly, and then the kidneys filter it out, where it ends up as crystals in the bladder, and can cause many, many UTI's. Don...
  8. Takala
    Did you get your genetic tests back yet ? If you fall into the category of "having the genes which pre dispose one to celiac or gluten sensitivity" would that change your attitude ? Lifelong condition, yes, but the damage from gluten intolerance has to accumulate s l o w l y until it seems it is a sudden, overwhelming crisis situation of illness -...
  9. Takala
    From the Hodgson Mill's website today, 2/17/12 (bolding mine) Does not sound like they are bothering to prevent cross contamination nor are batch testing to ensure less than 20 parts per million gluten, does it ? Same thing with their brown rice flour - Yet they CLAIM that some of their gluten free mixes, like gluten free cake mixes, and...
  10. Takala
    Better to catch this now than to go for decades thinking you might have or be developing MS because the doctors screwed up.
  11. Takala
    Applause! I know you are doing this in a small kitchen, too! I have a question. Does the cake dough get a pinch of salt or any cream of tartar or other leavening, or just the egg whites ? And what size pyrex baking dish was used ?
  12. Takala
    I also had a reaction to granulated dried garlic also, from a "reputable" company that claims all spices are gluten free. I noticed the country of origin for that garlic was China. I no longer use dried granulated garlic. It was easy enough to test this. We had just purchased a new bottle, and had used it on hamburgers. We used it several times...
  13. Takala
    I have been seeing "Zocalo" brand sweet potato flour at the one Whole Foods down in the city (not at the other one I checked for the same items, which did not have much gluten free). I purchased a box recently (it is pricey) but have not tried it yet. So I can not vouch for it as "tried it, no reaction." I have been okay with their blue corn flour, but...
  14. Takala
    Hmmmmmm. You are using Bob's Red Mill brand. You're not actually an "oat reactor," are you ? Because their stuff is cc'd with gluten free oats. I'm a flax reactor. If I were you, I'd be cautious of the millet, that seems to be another thing that's either got a lot of cc problems or causes allergic reactions. You could try 1/3 arrowroot, 1...
  15. Takala
    Think of it this way: you're trending well and with a bit of fine- tuning, you should be able to get it down further. I don't know where doctors come up with this "back to normal" in a few months routine, even for people like me, who felt much different and less sick within 24 hours within quitting gluten, we are older, so had so much damage and other...
  16. Takala
    Delayed reaction possible ? Yup! Every once in a great while, randomly, I get something similar if I have eaten a non organic, processed dairy product. I am suspicious of the chemicals and antibiotics they must pump into those poor cows, I suspect it's residue. I don't know if you have one yet, but you ought to get a "rescue" inhaler for emergencies...
  17. Takala
    Oh, is "Dr." Nancy Snyderman at it again ? She's done this before. I had a write up I did before, that I didn't publish because I had smoke coming out of my ears. I really think the woman has mental issues regarding food. There was video on MSNBC of the previous show, (probably the one poster 'notme!' has seen, it was on around Aug 24 -25, 2010...
  18. Takala
    It can be that the person who filled the ice machine may have not washed their hands before doing so. If I get a fast food soda (not that often) I don't put any ice in it and just get a small size. Uhm, btw, maybe Taco Bell is not going to be an optimum workplace for you.... hope that was for your older son. If he's driving your car there, you'd better...
  19. Takala
    Heya! The bran mash as a necessity for horses is a myth, try a warm soaked beet pulp shreds mash. If they have sand problems, use horse psyllium. Get that **** bran out of the garage! Dog foods come in grainless and rice as the grain varieties.... some use potato or sweet potato as the carbohydrate - this is a no- brainer, you'll need to switch...
  20. Takala
    Even if the Gastro doc's office calls you back and says that the biopsy was "negative," you should go on a true gluten free diet anyway. Lactose intolerance is also a sign of celiac, you may heal up enough to be able to eat cheese and yogurt again. Some doctors still use the so-called "gold standard" of insisting that both the blood tests AND the biopsy...
  21. Takala
    My spouse volunteered to do this, after seeing me get knocked down one too many times by cross contamination. If he wants regular bread he eats it out at work lunches or on business travel, or rarely, at a fast food place. Bread at home is gluten free, either from a gluten free bakery, a store that sells gluten-free bread, or I make it. (I don't eat much...
  22. Takala
    No, I looked up online what sort of crust they used and found a discussion forum of pizza makers talking about it, they use a high gluten flour, yeast, and a slow, cold rise: Open Original Shared Link Agree that both of them should knock it off with encouraging the other one the regular pizza consumption.
  23. Takala
    For a quick, fresh, homemade gluten free bun, nothing beats a customized, "bun-'n-a-cup" baked in the microwave in a small bowl, ramekin, or soup cup, made out of ingredients you chose yourself. I have been meaning to try this with the Pamela's mix, and just made one that worked beautifully. Pamela Bun- in-a- Cup use a scant 1/...
  24. Takala
    I don't eat "low- fat" cheese. You could not pay me to go near it, it's got the fat replaced with undigestible modified food starch. Ditto the supposedly processed lactaid- free sour cream, which you did not specify if it was dairy or soy based. I'm better off with real, plain, unprocessed yogurt or sour cream with no additives. Were the beans drained...
  25. Takala
    Oh, sorry. Get a blender. Go to store and buy some oranges and berries, the best you can get. Peel oranges and separate the segments, freeze, and freeze the berries after washing. Throw frozen berries & fruit into blender with sweetener of choice and maybe some coconut milk, whirr to blend, & drink. You can also do this with frozen bananas...
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