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    Another VA mom with the same problem - except my son isnt celiac (as far as we know - actually waiting for results). Some mornings he has the runs several times before the bus comes here. I often will just drive him in late, tho - he's in middle school (6th grade), and he'll just stay home all day and play video games and then want to play w his freinds...
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    I'm not much for praying, but I sure hope you feel better soon . . . and that those three weeks go fast! Is it possible you picked up a stomach bug or parasite while traveling? My mom got very sick once while in Boston - she thinks it was bad seafood - and she stayed sick for over a month. Finally it just went away and her doctor said something along...
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    I probably dont have celiac, but i have tons of food allergies including wheat, barley, malt and yeast . . so i'm not eating gluten anyways. I went to an allergist who specailized in food allergies, and also took a sensitivity test - i took the A.L.C.A.T test because it covered more foods than anything else. I'm now on a very restrictive diet, trying to...
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    First of all, there will probably be other who will chime in and say that they were celiac despite several negative tests. Heres my perspective. My test results (in my siggy) were negative celiac, positive 'sensitivity test' and postive allergy test. I feel better when I dont eat gluten . . so I'm not going to eat gluten. Apparently these new, more...
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    Just want to add in from the perspective of a mom with some difficult kids, albeit not quite that difficult. My middle child was eventually dx'd pdd-nos (mild autism) and bipolar and is now on 3 heavy drugs. I really wonder if getting to the bottom of his food issues could have prevented the medication, but this is all new to me (i'm curently waiting on...
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    The parent website which hosts this forum has a whole section of flour mixes: https://www.celiac.com/categories/Gluten%25...ee-Flour-Mixes/ of course, you can always buy cookbooks, too. I have gluten-free baking basics, which has 4 different flour mixes in it. Also, personally, i was frustrated w which flours and starches were good for what, so...
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    My middle child has a bunch of issues and I just did the celiac test (tho i dont expect much) and a blood-type allergy test. My youngest is having clear reactions to food dyes, anything with colors in it. He tends to just yell the rest of the day after having red foods, and the only time he got in trouble for hitting at preschool, it was v-day and they...
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    I do . . .i took a sensitivity test (A.L.C.A.T) 2 weeks off gluten and casien and came back mildlly reactive to both, and reactive to several other foods. I took a celiac panel 2 mo off gluten, and it came back negative, which means very little. I went to the allergist and tested positive for wheat, barely, malt, yeast, milk, and 90% of all foods he tested...
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    I was allergic to wheat and milk as an infant and had read to put off introducing allergen foods to kids with a high chance of food allergies until they were 1 year old. In fact, thats why they no longer make infant cereals with wheat in them - farina used to be a common first food for babies. I introduced all common allergy foods to my kids very carefully...
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    Its not my recipe, i just searched for Easy Cajun Jambalaya on allrecipes.com and it came up . . . i'll try the link, but i doubt it will work: Open Original Shared Link
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    I had been dx'd as allergic to dairy and wheat from a diet test as an infant, but only off them for a few months. I went gluten and casien free in November, and i've been amazed at the difference. Within a week, 90% of my intestinal symptoms were gone. About 6 weeks in to it, I realized i hadnt taken exedrin in a month, and it used to be 3-4 times each...
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    My jambalaya recipe is on all recipes dot com (i am pretty sure links are altered so they wont work) Just search for Easy Cajun Jambalaya. I do it almost exactly as written, but I add some shrimp (raw, peeled) the last half of the cooking time and I reduce the cayenne to a dash and dont use the hot sauce (since I'm cooking for kids) If you go to a health...
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    Thanks for all the replies. I really appreciate it Part of why I keep wondering is that I still really think I have some other relatives with the same problems and I guess if it WAS celiac, that might give them some motivation to work on their issues from a diet perspective. One of my sons was tested recently (mental health issues, frequent D and C all...
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    I looked at the test results the first time (I insisted on a copy) and was suprised that, yes, they were all negative. However, I remembered seeing a post once that said if you were too low on something, that meant the test was not valid. Well, now I want to take a closer look. I know lots of ppl have posted this kind of thing and gotten very little response...
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    Many people say their symptoms from glutening are worse a few days later. Its also possible that your mother's baking equipment had some crumbs from her regular baking still on them. Are you sure thats all she used? she had to at least put some water in it, didnt she? anyways, baking soda should be safe, but it could have flour in it. Or . .. maybe...
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    I think the most important thing is just planning a menu thats safe for your restrictions. I started eating more roast chicken and mashed potatoes (made w rice milk and vegan margerine), fried rice and stir-fries (with wheat-free soy sauce, and hold the eggs for my husband), and alternative pastas. Since my meatball recipe had bread crumbs and milk and...
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    Meat and potatoes are gluten free. Meat and rice are gluten free. Veggies are gluten free. Depending, of course, on what you use to season it. But i make roasted chicken or turkey breast w mashed potatoes and veggies all the time. Stir-fry over rice . . any plain rice is going to be gluten-free, just dont get any rice mixes. Read your labels, substitute...
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    Me too - I dropped gluten and dairy, and very soon noticed I couldnt tolerate tapioca. I cant have most mixes, pre-made gluten free items . . . or even frozen rice dream. And all the best bread recipes call for tapioca starch, too. Very annoying. It also showed up on my A.L.C.A.T test as a sensitivity.
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    I'd stopped eating salmon because i started noticing it bothered me. WHen I took my A.L.C.A.T. test it showed up as a sensitivity. But hey, if it bothers you . . . dont eat it.
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    Three comments: 1. the original post is from 2004. I strongly suspect her child is weaned by now 2. I weaned all of my children around 3.5 years. Nursing past the age of 2 is the norm many places in the world, its no big deal, as long as its working for mom and child. 3. Other food issues, including artificail colors or other food sensitivities,...
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    I just want to let you know you arent alone in this struggle. My neighbor had a severely colicky baby, who basically didnt sleep the first few weeks at all unless sitting, and screamed all the time. Her doctors just kept giving her meds for reflux, but finally she told her husband to look up things on line. He suggested removing major allergens from HER...
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    a few things - are you using gluten-free recipes, or just substituting gluten-free flours in your old recipes? Have you tried a different package of yeast? Finally, you can try turning your oven on for 1 or 2 minutes and turning it off again, and then putting your bread in there to rise.
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    I'm also not a teen, I'm mom to a teen, but I'm the only one in my family going through this. The other day I ran to Panerra to pick up some bread bowls to serve soup to my family in (I just eat mine without the bread bowl, but they love them). Well, Panneras was one of my FAVORITE places to eat before all this - I looked around at all the fantastic sandwhiches...
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    I'm not sure if this is really the right place to post this - all my testing showed yeast and candida as problems, but I also reacted to 90% of the foods on the allergy test. I went gluten free in December and now i'm trying to eat only foods that I dont react to, to slowly work in other foods. However, I was using sugar and wine vinegar as seasonings,...
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