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  1. T.H.
    *cough* Actually, there is a potential cc issue for gluten-fed poultry. But it's NOT that it somehow stays in the tissues without being broken down or anything. It has to do with the undigested grains in the poultry when it is slaughtered, and the defeathering process. Most poultry is defeathered in a drum-like machine that rolls them over and over, with...
  2. T.H.
    Even the dirt could get us, if anyone walked over it eating a piece of bread and dropping crumbs. Ack, glutened by dirt, wouldn't that be a kick in the pants, LOL. ...and goodness, I was thinking of this as a joke, and just remembered my friend's celiac toddler, eating dirt on the playground the other day, next to two other toddlers who were eating...
  3. T.H.
    Goodness, yes. I think the best Label Lameness I ever found was years ago with a bag of pretzels. I was doing a research paper on low-fat foods and was trying to compare the normal pretzels to the more expensive 'lite' pretzels. The ingredients were the same. The calories per pretzel were the same. Everything was the same! And then finally, I discovered...
  4. T.H.
    Hope the diet goes really well for you! OH, you might want to take some care with the poultry - most of the time the feed is full of lovely, lovely gluten, sigh. I know of a few people on farms who had to start wearing a mask when feeding, because the dust from the feed in the air was enough to inhale, get down the throat, and swallow a little. Not fun...
  5. T.H.
    - One issue that might be exacerbating things, at least, is the oat sensitivity you mentioned. What brand of rice do you use? Lundberg rice, one of the only ones I know that claims gluten free status here in the USA, grows oats as one of it's cover crops for the rice. I know a few oat sensitive celiacs who feel unwell after they eat this rice, and that...
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    ARCHIVED Deep Thought

    T.H. replied to AMom2010's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Yeah, that's definitely what seems to help a lot of us - remember how good we'll feel NOT eating breads and grains again. I'm 2 years into the diet now. I honestly don't know if I remember what bread tastes like. I have a memory in my head, of course, but after the first year or so, with no cheating, it's kind of faded to this half-remembered 'maybe...
  7. T.H.
    Hmmmm...what kind of soap is Fit? Could it be part of the issue? (My soap has gotten me, too). Do you have any farmer's markets where you are? With some major questioning, the 'no gluten on property' route is about what I've had to attempt. Haven't quite managed it, but we're close. I get my produce from a farmer that goes to one of the farmer's markets...
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    The person I spoke to didn't give me a specific date for the changeover, but did say that any of the packages that were made in the gluten-free facility would have 'gluten free' on the package itself. If 'gluten free' was nowhere on the package, then I was told that I should assume this indicated it was made at the shared facility and that it was no...
  9. T.H.
    Okay....loooong post. Apologies, but I pass this along because there is the possibility that it might be relevant for you, and might be able to help. Okay, first: In a recent study trying to determine how much gluten a celiac could eat and still heal, it was determined that just under 50mg of gluten a day was safe. In that study, however, they had one...
  10. T.H.
    Hopefully that will be the case, yup! A few of us seem to never be able to fully tolerate dairy, but most people here do all right with it after a few months going gluten free. Oh, if your doc didn't mention, it's a really good idea for anyone 1 degree separated from you, relation-wise, to get tested for celiac disease, too. (kids, siblings, parents...
  11. T.H.
    I found a big help with sites for corn allergy folks, like this one: Open Original Shared Link She lists lots of products with corn, ingredients that mean corn, etc... All in a big, nice list, you know? I get the same thing, I react to anything with corn like it's gluten. After learning that I react to very small traces of gluten in everything else...
  12. T.H.
    I just made a decision today, and I'm honestly just...I dunno...sharing? Sharing in a way that's really, really close to massively whining like a baby, but I'll pretend is actually sharing? I don't know about everyone else here, but I have an issue with inhaled gluten. It's not all the time, but I'd say at least half the time I go into a grocery...
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    ARCHIVED Glutened

    T.H. replied to catsmeow's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Where are you located? There was a post about the drops here on the forum in March or so, but at the time, the American version had wheat as an ingredient. The Canadian version didn't, I believe. No one in my family has tried the Hershey's drops, but members of my family have said they were glutened by the Hershey's kisses, the chocolate bars, and the...
  14. T.H.
    I'm glad that you don't have to worry about it. No sarcasm meant, either. I really am glad that this isn't an issue for you. But that doesn't mean it's not an issue for some of us, and for those of us who DO have this issue? We need accuracy if we want to be able to find and keep our good health. I'm aware that many people can't really see that this...
  15. T.H.
    She had the procedure yesterday, yes? A sore throat should only last a day or two after an endoscopy, so if it's still going on tomorrow, I'd get in touch with the doc. The swelling - I've never noticed that before. Wish I could be more help!
  16. T.H.
    Ah, good to know. Thanks, Peter.
  17. T.H.
    If you could list the foods you're eating, we could take a look and see if any of them might be more of a gluten cc risk (cross-contamination). Also, what do you do in your kitchen to cut down on gluten cross-contamination? Separate pots and pans, separate work station for food prep? New toaster? New cutting board? anything else? that might help us...
  18. T.H.
    Actually, I would say that the likelihood of spices being near wheat fields may be more than you might imagine. When we were trying to track down issues with spices, especially the ones from India that I liked to use, I had a lot of discussions about this with some of the suppliers. I spoke a lot to an NM company that dealt more with small farmers, and when...
  19. T.H.
    This got me curious enough to contact the company. They have a gluten free facility for their spices, which was lovely. But after assurances by two different employees that they test for gluten, I still emailed them because no one knew what the ppm cutoff might be for the test, and that's an issue for the people in the family I might buy this for. After...
  20. T.H.
    You might want to check the smoke, actually. I know liquid smoke can be a gluten issue (can't recall why at the moment, but it's even on the list of offending foods here at celiac.com.). I wonder if this smoke might have processing or ingredients in it that are gluten derived, or if it's perfectly fine.
  21. T.H.
    I must admit, I always get frustrated when a company tells me that X is highly processed and contains no gluten. I'd rather they didn't sacrifice accuracy for putting the information in lay person speak. Better they should say X is highly processed and contains no detectable gluten when tested with a Y ppm detection level test. Then it's accurate, and...
  22. T.H.

    ARCHIVED Refined Sugar

    T.H. replied to sburton's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    According to my allergist, probably, but not always. Intolerances that involve the lack of certain enzymes, like the lactase mentioned above, are better understood. But enzymes aren't the only way we break down food, so sometimes the lack of other things are what cause the problem, certain substances in our bodies. And some intolerances are simply named...
  23. T.H.
    Basically, here's what the issue will be. If you wish to get further testing, they will usually perform an endoscopy, take a biopsy, and confirm celiac disease or say that it is negative and it isn't celiac disease. The biopsy won't test positive unless you are on gluten. That said, if it tests positive, you will be told to do exactly what you are doing...
  24. T.H.
    Wishing you the best of luck with this one! Hopefully, if he's this good, your experience will really help him become even better. There's so much information to learn, these days, that sometimes it's hard for a doctor to keep up. And considering that constipation is only recently recognized as a celiac issue (I had constipation, but not nearly as bad...
  25. T.H.

    ARCHIVED Gluten On Surfaces...

    T.H. replied to L-C's topic in Super Sensitive People

    I think that may depend on where you store your food and cooking implements, how sensitive to gluten you are, and how close you are to any airborne gluten. When I go on vacation, I bring a huge plastic box with me (only done it a few times now). It contains my pots and pans, plates, spoons, dishrag, tinfoil, salt - whatever I need, it's in that box....
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