FarmCat

I'd like to clear up a misconception I commonly see on these boards. The US laws that require food manufacturers to clearly label allergens DO NOT APPLY to vitamins or to medications. If your vitamins or meds say 'starch', it could be wheat starch. I Googled this and found the following sources: Open Original Shared Link Since the Food Allergy Labeling...

psawyer, on 12 January 2011 - 08:57 PM, said: "Here is the applicable Canadian regulation. It applies to food sold in Canada, but food sold outside Canada may not have to adhere to the rule. Food and Drug Regulation B.24.018 No person shall label, package, sell or advertise a food in a manner likely to create an impression that it is gluten-free...

Maybe it's some other personal care product, not the toothpaste. Maybe his shaving cream or aftershave? Or his shampoo?

In my household we have one of each. I am self-diagnosed gluten-intolerant: blood work and gastroscopy both negative, trace amounts don't bother me, larger amounts do. My husband, on the other hand, just had a positive biopsy last week. He has very obvious and medically-confirmed Celiac disease.

I am hypoglycemic and gluten intolerant myself. There should not be hypoglycemia or hunger issues on the gluten-free diet! There are plenty of other sources of carbohydrates besides wheat, even for picky eaters. Potatoes, rice, corn, dairy (milk is a good source of sugar), fruit (will your family eat bananas, apples, oranges?). I have not found a really great...

Here's one connection--peanut butter, hummus and soy are all legumes. Soy is a very common allergy, and in some people (me included) the entire legume family causes problems. Good luck tracking things down.

I had not heard of this before, but WOW do I fit the profile of being overmethylated/low histamine. It makes a lot of little things make sense--like the fact that when I saw a traditional allergist for food allergy testing, the nurse commented that during the skin testing I barely even reacted to the control substance, which EVERYONE is supposed to be allergic...

If peanut butter and hummus both bother you--consider eliminating all legumes. The very first food intolerance I discovered I had was soy, and with a little more experimentation it turned out that it was the whole legume family. Being gluten and legume free is a nuisance; bean flour is used as a wheat substitute in so many gluten-free goodies!

Thank you, both of you! I live close to them, too (I'm in the same town as FoodieGurl) and I didn't know about them. I will definitely make a trip down there soon. I'm going to call them first and ask some questions. I can't tolerate legumes and I know a lot of gluten-free baking is done with bean flours.

Your low iron and B12 could possibly be something called pernicious anemia (PA). That is the inability to absorb B12 from food. This malabsorption wouldn

I'm pretty new to all this myself, but the advice I have seen on this forum is to get rid of any non-stick cookware, because it does scratch and you can't wash the gluten out of it. Did you use a cutting board? That hangs onto gluten, too; you need a new one. I'm glad you're doing better. I've been gluten-free for a couple of weeks now and am trying...

I am wondering about your cooking utensils. It sounds like for your first few days you were eating things that didn't require much cooking--and then you fixed a nice, big dinner. Was it the first time you used those pans since going gluten-free? Were they teflon? Any scratches in teflon will hold gluten. Maybe you did eat a trace of it.

Yes, they can! I don't know if it's Celiac, but there are dogs who are bothered by wheat, or soy, or any of the things that bother people. And you CAN get gluten-free dog food. That might be a good idea, anyway; one less possible source of gluten crumbs in your house. Although I admit I haven't switched my dog's food yet.

Ginnybean, I am pretty new here myself, but I wanted to join in and welcome you. I am so sorry you are getting so little support from the people around you. I hope they will come around eventually. In the meantime, you can always come here and people will understand. I wanted to touch on a couple of things from your first post. You mentioned having...