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Hi, I have gotten my EnteroLab results back. Recently there was an article at the New York Times (Can't find it now) about how inaccurate testing blood for antibodies to different foods is for determining food "allergies." Apparently skin tests are more accurate. The New York Times article had said that the problem with testing for antibodies in the blood...

I've been off gluten for 1.5 years and casein for 1 year, except of course the occasional screwup. I'd been hoping to reintroduce casein after a year, so I started with a goat milk yogurt (goat and yogurt forms supposed to be easier to digest). Well that was the end of it. Immediate reactions were slightly gurgling stomach, bronchial congestion and gas. Two...

Hi, I never find much explanation of the connection between ammenorhea/infertility and gluten, but the association is commonly referred to. I don't think they understand the connection, but the theory is that gluten mounts an autoimmune reaction somehow affecting reproductive hormones, perhaps affecting a gland that produces them? I was treated for PCOS for...

My understanding is that the only 2 gluten-free dishes there are #49, Yum Ta-Wai, and # 52, Seeda Longsong, but I haven't tested them out.

What are the noodles in pho made of, or do you ask to leave them out? If the latter, do they remove them (cc) or just not add them in?

I've been gluten-free for about three quarters of the year, and dairy free since about September. The gluten free diet remedied lifelong amennorhea, and the dairy free diet relieved my lifelong acne. Recently I started using butter on bread, thinking that it was very low in casein and may not pose a problem. But I started to get some strange bumps around...

Sushi is a great stand-by for me! I just make sure they've used rice vinegar in the rice (I heard some alternatives to that can have gluten). So far not one restaurant has used the alleged alternative. Then instead of using soy sauce, or even wheat-free soy sauce which some have, I ask for lime wedges and squirt lime juice all over it. Delicious. Gives it...

I wonder if it's all that linear. Do we have reason to think villi destruction is "end stage" as opposed to just one manifestation, more like a spoke on a wheel with gluten at the center?

Sometimes tempura is made using corn starch rather than wheat. As long as the fryer didn't have gluten items in it that may work if you can communicate it to them. Call ahead if you can so you know what will work. If tempura, eat well before going and just have vegetable tempura. You could check the soups, but they may all have wheat.

Anyone know if this has gluten? It was all I had on hand when I had my first major D attack ... 5 days after eating gluten. I'd had 2 days (apart) headache and a major emotional outburst in between. It seems my reactions are different with different glutenings, and changing over time. I never had the D reaction before. It's not a bug because I feel totally...

Yea, a brilliant breakthrough in terminology! I like this structure, but I would go one step further and say: gluten autoimmune disease of the intestines, aka celiac gluten disease of the nervous system gluten disease of the reproductive system gluten disease of the skin gluten disease of the kidney gluten disease of the thyroid gluten disease ....

Boy, if all these responses don't illustrate my original point. There are so many ways people use all the terms, and different assumptions they make when they use them, that we are not - truly - all having the same conversation ... medical community and online forums alike. I believe we have a situation here ;-) But what to do about it? The main celiac research...

I think this is really important, that I don't think we know, to my knowledge, how much of the conditions strongly associated with celiac are associated because they are both caused by gluten, or they are simply two (or more) conditions one is predisposed to by the same gene(s). I have read that the high rate of type 1 diabetes concurrent with gluten is due...

Anyone know why my info to the left says "Warn 0%"? No one else here says anything like that???

Sorry you saw it this way, because I think we're all or mostly on the same page about this, but it illustrates my original post perfectly ... that just *using* the words intolerant and sensitive *sounds* less serious than *celiac* even in a community that for the most part I think knows better (other than maybe those new to it all?). I've had a concern that...