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  1. SGWhiskers
    It sounds like it is time to take the whole house gluten free and dairy free. It is tough on a little one to send the message that certain food is OK one day and not others. Same holds true for those foods being OK for some people and but not her. At that age, she needs lots of practice eating the right foods and limited exposure to anything that could harm...
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    I had an incident with chocolates. I forgot that vanilla could have gluten and wound up with repeated glutenings. I never checked if that product was or was not gluten free, or if I got cross contaminated somewhere else, but I skip that brand of chocolate now.
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    If you can get your doctor to draw vitamin levels for you, that would be a good start. Make sure you are taking your vitamins and an extra dose of folic acid. Celiac's are often deficient in Vitamin D and with it being winter you may want to look into a supplement. Obviously, stay strict about the gluten-free diet. Eat plenty of fruits and veggies. Our starches...
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    I think I posted this same question in my first trimester too. I was pretty nervous about everything and that seemed like something I could control. These guys told me to wait and my anxiety went down and I made a baby registry instead. Now I'm 30 weeks and at today's appointment, asked my doctor to provide me with a list of oral and topical meds she and...
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    You've gotten good advice and for your sake as well as your future babies sake, you need to get strict about the diet ASAP. I'll share my story as one example of how celiac can cause fertility problems. Unfortunately, many many posters to this website have worse stories to share. I started trying to get pregnant when I was 26. I had always had normal...
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    I called the company that made my drink and it was gluten free. It was basically a super sugared orange soda.
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    Oh, when you replace the can opener, they are all crappy these days except the OXO brand. I went through half a dozen before I found this one. The rest all die within 6 months or leave metal fragments in my can. Granted I didn't spend more than $15 or so on any of them.
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    I had relatively new Calphalon non sticks when I went gluten-free. I didn't get rid of them partly from stubborness and partly from frugality. I scrubbed them with everything imaginable and soaked them in alcohol until I couldn't scrub stains out on a white cloth anymore. I was sick the first 3 months of gluten-free, but I was making all kinds of mistakes...
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    Check your hygine products too.
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    Does anyone know of a gluten free/dairy & casin free/egg free prepackaged protien supplement? I'm thinking something along the lines of Boost or SlimFast. I've got a protien powder mix right now, but I would like something shelf stable and somewhat portable. Thanks for any suggestions.
  11. SGWhiskers
    You're right. Anytime you let someone else prepare your food, you will be risking cross contamination. Fortunately, there are some ways to mitigate that risk. I will first say that I always recommend being in control of your own food for the first 3-6 months while you figure out what your body needs and while you heal. I wish I had taken my own advice...
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    Thank you for the support. I have not figured out how I'm breaking the news to mom, but my husband and I decided it would be best to have them come when the baby is 2 weeks old and he goes back to work. Fortunately, his parents will be more relaxed about when they come to see the baby. I really do appreciate you guys helping me through that little panic...
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    I hope you find what is making your little girl sick. Almost all nail polish contains gluten. Look for Tocepherol Acetate/Vitamin E in your lotions and other liquids. Sometimes it is derived from wheat, sometimes soy, it could be from other sources. You will have to call the manufacturer to learn the source. Someone has posted a list of cosmetic industry...
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    You've gotten good advice. I may just confuse the issue, but a few thoughts from my experiences with mystery reactions. After I went gluten-free, I was doing pretty well on the diet when I started having GI reactions I hadn't had before. It took me a few months, but I realized it was an intolerance to tree nuts. I'm still questioning the peanuts. I had...
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    I moved out of state 3 months ago and my first child is due in 3 more months. I just went home for a visit with my parents and we started discussing plans for them to visit when baby is born. Now I've added the anxiety of managing what to do with them to the anxiety of birth and learning to be a new mother. I have 3 major goals I would like to accomplish...
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    Look into hand foot mouth disease (not hoof and mouth disease). It is a coxsackie virus that causes prolific mouth ulcers along with a cold. I had the type that does not cause hand and foot spots, just mouth ulcers and the cold. I was as sick as ever with that virus. I don't remember if it caused GI problems as well, but I do remember a really bad GI issue...
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    It's frustrating when you see loved ones eating gluten when you think it is hurting them. I've got a few family members that I think would benefit from the diet as well. All we can do is educate and if they decide to try the diet, enable them to get the yummiest gluten free products before they decide tapioca bread is the best the gluten-free world has to...
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    I love all the advice you have gotten from everyone here. I'll second or third the gluten free kids idea. I had a hard time recovering until hubby went gluten free. My nieces get me sick a few times a year from hugs, cheek to cheek kisses, and playing. I suspect it is the gluten fingers run through the hair and the occassional accidental hand bumping my mouth...
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    My answer of poor is a huge step up from at death's door that would have been my baseline. Ask me the same question at the 12 and 18 month mark, and you would get better answers.
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    And if you want to continue with the gluten challenge, and want high gluten items, remember flour is about as high in gluten as you can get without eating wheat stalks. Oh, they sell vital wheat gluten from Bob's Red Mill in a bag. It would be like eating directly out of a bag of poison. Just pour a bunch of that into a bowl of barley soup or some cookies...
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    A colonoscopy CANNOT diagnose celiac. A blood panel and or EGD biopsy (through your mouth, stomach and upper intestines with at least 6 samples) while you are consuming at least 2-4 slices of bread/day are the standard way of diagnosing celiac. If you are positive on any of the blood tests or the biopsy, then it's celiac. Additionally, there are plenty of...
  23. SGWhiskers
    I hope you recover from this glutening quickly. Keep reading up on all the possible sources of cross contamination and take them seriously. I didn't find a consistent pattern of recovery until I got super strict about the cross contamination. It takes me 2 weeks to do the bulk of my recovering from a glutening and probably 5 to be back to normal. Getting...
  24. SGWhiskers
    I agree, get the total IGA Serum test, but once that blood is drawn, start on a strict gluten free diet for 3 months. Pay attention to the cross contamination. It really does make one as sick as eating a slice of bread. With your autoimmune history and your brother's possible celiac, you wouldn't be doing yoursef any favors by skipping the diet because of...
  25. SGWhiskers
    OK, that makes sense. Thanks for all you advice.
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