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I totally agree with everything mushroom said. What is the harm in trying and you will be surprised at the difference true gluten free can make!

Hi Everyone, I haven't been on here in quite awhile, so hello again. Over the past year I've gone from being just gluten/dairy free only for my infant dd whom I was nursing (now a healthy ACTIVE "almost" two year old) to recently getting diagnosed myself with leaky gut. I just had delayed food allergy testing done and now am trying to follow a rotation...

littlestephanie, I am in a similar situation to you, but I am 5'2", 90 pounds (big sigh). I've been gluten-free for over a year and have gotten repeatedly frustrated at not feeling better as fast and dramatically as others. I recently gave up all grains and processed foods (the gluten free bread AND the breakfast drinks), and it does seem to have helped...

If you're going to bake from scratch I highly recommend Annalise Roberts' (sp?) "Baking Gluten Free Classics" cookbook. I haven't tried breads, but the cakes are excellent! I would say even better than most "regular" gluten cakes. Having used several brands of gluten free mixes, I found her recipes to be far far better. I bought the flour she recommended...

I find the best way to avoid gluten is not to present yourself with it as an option. Don't keep it in your home if at all possible. DO NOT let your car turn into the drive through.......it's so true that gluten is an addiction. Just as an alcoholic should not sit in a bar, we also need to restrict ourselves in somewhat the same way.

First of all, welcome:) I could have just about written this post myself from the Enterolab testing/results, to the moodiness, to the way better during pregnancy thing. I keep hoping that someday my moods will subside completely, for the sake of those around me if nothing else. I've been gluten free for over a year now and still get them on occasion, although...

Interesting comment...another thought along those same lines is that the baby may be reacting to mother's antibodies to gluten which are passing into the milk, not to gluten itself. Although my one daughter was actually diagnosed celiac, I am not and neither were any of our other children. I was not gluten free when breastfeeding my two fussy babies and...

I haven't had any exposure to that brand specifically BUT I have reacted to several different brands of vitamins, all of which stated gluten free. I could never figure out why and was getting very frustrated. I ended up figuring out that I was reacting to them because of the corn, which is most likely what maltodextrin, dextrin, and dextrose are derived...

I noticed a change within a week of going gluten free with my daughter. She was 80% better when I also went dairy free and within a day or two, she was 100%. I challenged this a handful of times and her reaction to my having gluten was always four days later, but with dairy it was within a day.

Hello and welcome. Your four month old's steady decline in growth curve reminds me exactly of my youngest daughter when she was a baby. She was 50th at birth and steadily went down to about 5th by the time I decided to just try gluten free, she was also exclusively breastfed. After I went gluten free, in ONE MONTH she went back up to 50th! I was stunned...

She did test positive for dairy sensitivity so she will not be getting any dairy either, she had only had a very minimal amount before anyway, maybe a handful of times at most.

Thanks for all the replies everyone, another "you are not going to believe this"........when we called to have the labs faxed to us, we found out the doctor actually got the lab results mixed up with my other daughter! My 5yo daughter started out with a ttg of over 1000 and after three months being gluten-free, it had gone down to 300 something. Then after...

She does not leave my sight at church, but she does "bite" on the pew at times. I guess she has sat in the cart at Walmart a few times lately, but REALLY!? Now I'm thinking of all these things, and my family thought I was paranoid before........I guess I need to get one of those cover thingys for the grocery cart. I've read all the labels on the babyfood...

I was nursing her, but we've been done for a few weeks now. Yes, I am gluten free for almost an entire year now (minus a few slip ups here and there but none recently) and no she hasn't been anywhere. Other than church and yes there are kids touching the pew sometimes with cheerio hands. UGH!

Our home has been completely gluten free (or so we thought) for almost a year now. We got new pots, pans, cutting boards, knives, toaster; everything. We do not eat out, haven't in almost a year. We did this all in hopes of getting our diagnosed celiac daughter's antibody levels down into the "normal" range after almost two years of her only (not the rest...