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  1. Skylark
    Lots of interesting things to react to in wine. Sulfites and yeast in all non-organic wines, histamine, phenolics, and tyramine in red wine. I wonder if your "lump in the throat" is a little allergic swelling?
  2. Skylark
    With the biopsy, I'm not sure you've eating enough gluten to get a reliable result. You might see something if you go real quick since sorta-kinda gluten-free doesn't usually let people heal so you've only been healing a month. If your specific celiac blood tests were super high and now your iron, calcium, and potassium have gotten up to normal, I can't...
  3. Skylark
    Yay! I'm glad it worked out so well! I like the challenge of finding fair food I can eat, but I only go for the evening so I don't take as much risk of starving. Corn grilled in the husk is everywhere, and I can often find artichokes or grilled asparagus. I've also gotten candy apples that worked out fine, Kettle corn, and our fair has a Mackinac...
  4. Skylark
    Antihistamines can help but not in the way you're probably thinking. They do not help with the underlying gluten reaction the way they help in allergies. Gluten intolerance is completely different from allergy (though you might also have a wheat allergy). Most antihistamines have some degree of anticholinergic activity, especially the older "drowsy" ones...
  5. Skylark
    Kids commonly outgrow wheat allergies if that is what was going on. If he's celiac, it may take a couple months for the intestinal damage and all the symptoms to appear. By three months, kids in gluten challenge studies are usually back to positive biopsies.
  6. Skylark
    It looks good. I don't see anything I'd worry about either.
  7. Skylark
    Chocolate covered for me! I didn't even bother to try the others.
  8. Skylark
    Three days is not long in the scheme of gluten intolerance. My gluten reactions can go four or five days. By day three after getting glutened I'm an exhausted, anxious mess with a stomachache. Your system has to settle down, antibodies go away, inflammation lessen, and your intestine has to rebuild. It's a process. Some gluten intolerant people get...
  9. Skylark
    If you like Indian food I'd highly recommend you get one of Madhur Jaffrey's cookbooks. Her cookbooks are thorough with a lot of explanation and there are a lot of naturally gluten-free, soy-free, egg-free vegetarian Indian dishes. You can use olive oil in place of ghee in most Indian recipes to make them dairy-free, although it doesn't taste quite as rich...
  10. Skylark
    You are wrong about the first two. Carmel color in the US is usually made from corn. On the rare occasion it's from wheat, the wheat must be declared on the label in the allergen warning. There is no malt in coke. Here is Coca-Cola's current US gluten-free list. I got it from coca-cola.com but the way their website is set up, I can't direct link. All...
  11. Skylark
    Not dinner, but I just made this crustless quiche for brunch. It was REALLY good. We had it with Rudi's toast and some fresh fruit. http://www.food.com/recipe/crustless-bacon-spinach-swiss-quiche-low-carb-209249 I used 1/2 an onion and it was good. I think a whole one would be overkill. Be sure to squeeze excess water out of the spinach and it took...
  12. Skylark
    It sounds to me like you need to go back on gluten and have an endoscopy with a biopsy to sort it out. I suspect your GI will say the same.
  13. Skylark
    As long as the readings are going down and you're feeling better, you're doing fine.
  14. Skylark
    I've become MORE of a foodie since going gluten-free. Most of my favorite recipes work gluten-free and I certainly don't eat bland food. I make beef Bourgignon (thicken with arrowroot starch), chicken cacciatore, yankee pot roast, or I'll saute chicken with fresh herbs from the garden. Pork chops are good baked with butter and tabasco sauce. I make soy...
  15. Skylark
    Indian sauces are almost never thickened with flour and tend to be naturally gluten-free. It's a great ethnic food for us celiacs. Meat curries are often thickened with bhuna, onion paste cooked in ghee with ginger, garlic, and the spice masala. The onions dissolve with lengthy simmering and thicken the sauce. With bean dishes, they mash some of the beans...
  16. Skylark
    Papadam can be fried. I'm sorry to hear you're sick. I wouldn't write off the Indian food entirely. Just ask the restaurant how they prepare the papadam and avoid them if they're put in a fryer with samosas and other breaded foods. I bet that's what got you.
  17. Skylark
    They are! There is an enzyme preparation in clinical trials, plus a vaccine that just passed phase 1. (The enzyme is NOT the useless "gluten defense" DPP IV preparation by the way.) Open Original Shared Link is the company working on the enzymes. The company working on the vaccine is ImmusanT in Cambridge.
  18. Skylark
    IgG and IgA are general classes of antibodies. The anti-tTG or anti deamidated gliadin (DGP) tell what the antibody is against. ONLY a person with celiac disease makes deamidated gliadin so you can't see those antibodies in a healthy person, and it's an extremely sensitive and specific test for celiac disease. The weak positive tTG lets you know that...
  19. Skylark
    I don't think I even noticed a difference the first week! By the end of two I wasn't having stomach-aches and diarrhea any more.
  20. Skylark
    When I was a child, I used to wish I had no food allergies when I blew out my birthday cake candles. Isn't that pathetic? I didn't wish for toys, money, days off school or other kid things. The one thing in the world I wanted was a damn normal birthday cake like the other kids. I got candles stuck in rice krispie treats becasue I was wheat-free, dairy...
  21. Skylark
    The test is missing from the first one. You need to find out what sort of IgA and IgG they are. It's probably anti-gliadin or DGP but they're really different tests. tTG stands for anti-tissue transglutaminase. It is the main celiac autoimmune antibody. Endomysial antibody is another autoimmune antibody that is very specific for celiac disease. The ...
  22. Skylark
    Unfortunately, you need to be eating a full gluten diet for about three months before the testing to reliably get antibodies (if you're a person who would even have them in the first place). You've been gluten-free long enough that the test would be questionable if it came back negative. If you get horribly sick from gluten it probably isn't worth getting...
  23. Skylark
    How incredibly frustrating. It's good that you don't seem to have Crohn's. ASCA can sometimes appear in celiac because of all the inflammation. The DQ2 means you *could* be celiac. I think I mentioned the celiac panel tests you would need in my post above. Have they done any biopsies when they scoped you? Was there anything that could point to early...
  24. Skylark
    Yes, a scope can have borderline results. You need to get a copy of the biopsy results, and see if it says anything about lymphocytic infiltration or increased intra-epithelial lymphocytes. It might say Marsh stage 1. That would mean there are immune cells in your small intestine that shouldn't be there. They are the "bad boys" that eventually do all...
  25. Skylark
    Yes, you need a proper celiac test. You probably also need a thyroid panel. Then give the diet a try for a couple months and see if you feel better in case you're gluten intolerant.
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