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    Unfortunately I think we do have to be pushy and make everybody aware and keep our eyes on them in publlic places. I found it really hard around the holidays because our family didn't get it yet and kept trying to give her stuff and plus she was reaching for things. dd is four so she understands now and is very good about telling people about her many allergies...
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    Wow, that sounds like a scary experience. I would recommend finding a doc that understands celiac's and won't make you try to test her, but could be supportive of you. My daughter was always under weight and never slept as an infant and even now at four wakes up once a night. Before we started gluten-free she was up two or three times. As an infant she slept...
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    Thanks for the input from all of you. Our hospital has gone through some major renovations in the last couple of years. It is a small community hospital that is growing quickly so unlike most hospitals it seems to have had money to maintain itself fairly well. Parts of the hospital are old and I am sure are not up to par. I wonder about the air quality system...
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    I was just thinking.... Some of you mentioned that you have environmental allergies. How do you go about figuring out what those are. I work for a hospital and most of the time I work out patient at schools and childcare centers, but about once a week I work inpatient. I am usually ill after working inpatient shortly after I get home or even before i leave...
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    The cream cheese frosting wasn't dairy free. This was the first time I had allowed dairy in several months becuase I want my dd gut to heal. She was experiencing symptoms that weren't going away so I cut out all the typical triggers. I never had a problem with dairy before this. I have only been experiencing this for a few months. This is gross, but when...
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    Hi Everyone, I need help and to vent! My stomach is killing me all the time. I ate a gluten free Namste spice cake with cream cheese frosting (homemade) last Tuesday and was horribly ill for 2 days. My stomach was finally feeling 100% Monday and Today I am having D again. The pains I was having last week were awful, sharp and stabbing. My massage therapist...
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    Thanks for the help, I just bought coriander this week for a pad thai recipe that meets all of are dietary restictions and I love cumin but haven't been using it after I ran out, don't know why. I will have to locate a wasabi that is free of all the crap we don't eat. Hubby has been eating it, but it's not oK for my dd. I think the nomato has soy in it,...
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    Hi, My family is gluten-free, soy free, casin free, legume free, and most unhappily nightshade free. Does anyone have any good substitues for tomatoes and most importantly spicy flavors like peppers. We used to eat hot food all the time and now are unsure what is ok and what to sub with. thanks for your help. Kristan
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    It must be tough having a father who doesn't understand your basic need for healthfulness. I have heard other people on this site state that it is a form of abuse to knowingly give a child who is intolerant, wheat. I wonder if dad has ever thought about that. Not that a discussion about abuse would make for peace between the parents, but come on, how could...
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    Hi Ali B, Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Your daughter is lucky to have a supportive mom. My mom is realizing that some of the symptoms my daughter has fit her and just got tested and started a gluten-free diet. Instead of educating herself she stops by my house for dinner! Which I love, but sometimes feel put upon since she's like " I have a meeting...
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    My daughter has had trouble holding her bowels during times of contamination. We started the gluten free diet in jan. She potty trained at 2 with little trouble, but about a month ago she was unable to make it to the toilet and was having accidents daily until I took other suspicious foods out of her diet and rechecked all of the gluten free stuff. after...
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    Holiday, I know what you are going through. The accidents for us take several weeks to days to resolve, but there is nothing more frustrating then cleaning up after an irritable child. They are frustrated we are frustrated, it just isn't a good time. My sympathies are with you.
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    Holiday, I know what you are going through. The accidents for us take several weeks to days to resolve, but there is nothing more frustrating then cleaning up after an irritable child. They are frustrated we are frustrated, it just isn't a good time. My sympathies are with you.
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    Thanks for all the help, I will call the doc today. I am now debating which one, Naturo or MD. Probably it will end up with both either way I go. I didn't know the sknis of apples would cause D. I don't give them to her usually unless I buy organic. Her poop is a combo of floating and sinking, but it has been so watery that a lot of times she can...
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    Thanks for the input Rick Spiff, I really hope it is not the eggs, we bought 20 laying hens a week ago and getting about 10 eggs a day from them. hubby finished the new hen house this weekend so we can get a flock of meat birds. Yikes, this would be reaaly bad. She doesn't usually get any soda, unless she is feeling exta sneaky, which happens with this...
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    Hi Fedora, It isn't really a gross question when you are dealing with food allergies or intolerance. Don't we all become experts of pooh or are trying to become experts? Sometimes food comes out undigested, but it doesn't look like rice or corn, just larger bits of food, I guess. more recently however it has just been totally watery or an interesting texture...
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    This week we've been eating chicken soup that I made. I boiled the chicken whole to make the stock, added rice, carrots, rice noodles, daikon, bay leaves, celery- it was pretty boring since I was out of some herbs and onion and didn't realize it when I started the soup. We also eat blue corn chips, apples, melon, celery, asparagus, broccoli, string...
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    HI, So my 4 year old daughter has been having watery D for several weeks. I have cut everything I can think of out her diet with little improvement, slightly formed is improvement at this point. Sorry if this is to much info . She has been off dairy and soy for over a week, it would have been two plus but a babysitter gave her milk and cheese...
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    I haven't read the ingredients to sweet baby ray's recently, but I bet there is some sort of sweetener in it and I think that can be hard on the healing gut as well. Maybe that gave you a reaction?
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    Our naturopathic doc has been so helpful in alleviating the anixious, over sensitive, oppositional behavior that we have struggled to deal with in our 4 year old dd. She also recieves occupational therapy once a week to address her social emotional skills and her sensory processing disorder. Sensory processing generally a big part of ADHD. Many of the reasons...
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    I've wondered about handsanitizer at the hospital I work at making me sick. I am a germaphobe, plus it is important to make sure I keep all germs away from patients and don't spread them and of course I wash my hands afterwards. I have noticed that if I wash my hands, but then use handsanitizer in the office before I eat that I end up with D. I thought...
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    Thanks for posting the email from Dr J. I read this thread last night and have been thinking about the safety of eating meat of grain fed beef. So I was really intereseted in that part. I am even happier not that we have started raising our own chickens and they are corn and scrap fed (fruits, and veggies). Chasing, you can buy grass fed beef it may...
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    Hi, My daughter is 4 and is having the big D again this week. I don't know if she has caught something (I don't think so), or if she was somehow contaminated. She spent three days this week at friends houses while I worked. These people are used to taking her and are careful, but I have found that she has fewer symptoms when people either come here or...
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    Last spring I was working at this awful school and I was so so stressed out. It felt like something was stuck in my throat for a couple of days and then my friend gave me prilosec or one of those and it went away. Never to return. Sound's like GERD to me.
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    I can understand the emotional meltdowns that come from this dx. My daughter is only four but from the time she was 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 her behavior was so awful I became really depressed and felt like a terrible mother. I just couldn't believe this was how my child behaved and nothing I did made any difference. Then we figured out the gluten-free thing. ...
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