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  1. Takala
    Sorry, it's a private business, and they can do what they want concerning "customers" bringing in food from other restaurants. If the kid had gotten violently ill from the McDonald's, which is a very real possibility with cross contamination issues, and had perhaps gotten a soft drink from the Pizza Hut to go with it, it is people like that who then might...
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    Takala replied to Jaxonthehuman's topic in Super Sensitive People

    Some farm feed stores also have a large selection of specialty pet foods, at least here in CA. We feed Natural Balance brand, the limited ingredients type. You will need to read the labels, carefully, as someone else already said, as I've seen several brands actually labeled "gluten free" when they were not, I've even seen pet foods with barley and brewer...
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    There are a great many undiagnosed celiacs who gave up on getting the medical profession to recognize that they really did have an auto immune disease process going on which could be relieved by giving up gluten, regardless of official testing status. They would fall into the category of 'non celiac gluten intolerance' and it appears CR Health has made the...
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    House is gluten free. My spouse volunteered to go gluten-free after seeing what happens when I accidentally get cross contaminated. We both shop and cook. We have pets with food allergies, inside dog is very allergic to wheat and cc'd oats, one of the horses outside has multiple allergies (barley, ryegrass, bermuda, soy, etc) and makes my reactions look...
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    Could be, or also could be gluten intolerance. In that case, the celiac panel blood tests will come back negative. If your blood tests come back negative, and you are not getting a biopsy, the next time you get one of those "mystery" rashes have them biopsy the skin next to it for DH, which could get you a positive diagnosis of celiac. After testing...
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    Uhm... spppp..... YES I think some people will notice. At least the hundreds of editors who constantly go thru every_fricking_article and leave comments on the "Talk" editing pages on why they thought they had to revise a perfectly good article so it contains less information. Then there is my favorite "please cite your reference sources" never occurs...
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    My hair came back in thick and curly, and I can grow fingernails now that I have to cut short instead of having them break off.
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    Is your thyroid supplement gluten free ? Everything needs to be, for this to work.
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    Or use club soda (the plain stuff) with a big chunk of fresh meyer lemon or mandarin orange.
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    Did the printed results you have there, have a range of numbers, as it can be a different scale used from different labs ? hypothetical example: "test result is > greater than 20 on a scale of 1 to 30. 1 to 15 is negative, 16 to 30 is positive" therefore the result for that one test done out of the four tests run, was positive. The...
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    Craving more gluten is a sign of being cross- contaminated. I've seen LOTS of people on here who will do this, then invent some excuse like "oh, I really must prove this reaction to gluten from a medical diagnostician's standpoint" and they then proceed to make themselves sick again. A lot of times it's also they are using the excuse "my (fill in the...
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    That was my first thought, also. I went thru a period of time where I tried eating regular gluten-free cereal for breakfast, and it just doesn't work out for me metabolically, especially if it has any sugar. And then if it is not the Chex, and you still want to try to eat cereal instead of another food for breakfast, try eating it with an alternative...
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    A lot of human foods that are "rejected" or recalled for one reason or another, end up used in livestock feeds, there is an entire food salvage and recycling industry which is dedicated for this purpose, operating under the radar of the average consumer buying pet feed or horse type chows. Most of the melamine contaminated gluten from China in the Great...
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    There's no such thing as a dumb question, especially when the normal procedure for regular bread put in the refrigerator is the opposite, as refrigerated wheat bread molds quickly. If you ever do your own gluten free baking, the higher protein type gluten free seeds such as amaranth are mold retardant. I've made dairy free, gluten free breads leavened...
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    I've been stuck with this, hand numbness, on and off, for most of my adult life. It got a lot better after I went gluten free years ago, but it's a permanent feature for me. Part of it is permanent nerve damage/impingement from a combination of doing physical things, and my c-spine damage/bone spurs. The hand that I have injured in the past does not...
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    Amaranth is good in mixtures because it adds mold retardant qualities for breads stored in the refrigerator, from what I've seen. Buckwheat kernels can be ground in a coffee grinder, and almonds can be ground easily in a blender. You didn't mention potato starch, but that is readily available in a lot of groceries. Buckwheat gluten-free mix,For pancakes...
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    perfect. Oh, just scrub the steering wheel and the grab handles, the stick shift and the roll cage down, pack the wet wipes,and get on with it !
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    Bottom Line: You have to be responsible for whatever goes inside of your mouth - not him. If he's repeatedly glutening you, which is what I am reading between the lines, you need to be doing your own meal prep, especially if you have a mixed household and still have gluten foods being prepped in the same area. If you can't share the research and...
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    How is she doing otherwise ? Give it another few months and continue to be vigilant. Do you have pets that eat regular food ? They can be a vector. We had to put all of them on gluten free food. I have a horse who reacts to bermuda/rye/barley/soy and a dog reactive to wheat, and cats eating cheap normal food going around drinking out of different...
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    So ? I don't eat anything that can kill my animals.
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    Ugh. Lupins. No. No. No. Poisonous to livestock. Put it under the category of "plants you don't want showing up in your hay bales or pastures." That **** can cause liver problems, leading to a photosensitivity reaction in horses where they sunburn really badly under their white hair and pink skin.
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    No, the only way to tell "for sure" is that you get a complete biopsy of the small intestine, the EGD (upper endoscopy) only looks at the very topmost part. They biopsy the esophagus. You need to look at the small intestine for celiac damage, and many samples need to be taken, not just one or two. see here link: Open Original Shared Link Get complete...
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    Try fresh ginger root or powdered ginger in tea. You're experiencing a combination of things, and you have very likely been cross contaminated with gluten, either from food or something in your physical environment. This can be from your food being prepared on a contaminated porous surface such as an old cutting board, or from old tupperware, for...
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    You can google the name of the town you are going to, with "gluten free health food store" or "gluten free grocery," and get the names of possible venues. Then get a rental car and go shopping when you get there. You can also try shipping a box of (non perishable) gluten free food there in advance, or put it in checked luggage. If you are staying at a...
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