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    Floating stools can be a sign of fat malabsorption. It would fit in with the lipid panel results. This seems like a really sensible article I turned up in Google. Open Original Shared Link
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    Wow, you've gone to a ton of work! I can't imagine a guy who loves hunting turning his nose up at a Browning with a high-end scope and a shooting range membership. My brother tells me you can't have enough good rifles. The bike sounds like icing on the cake, especially if he's been wanting one! Those little Yamaha 250cc's are nice bikes. If you...
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    If even traces of casein get you I doubt it's hormones in dairy. How could you possibly get enough of a hormone to react to in a "may contain milk" product? I know how hard it is because I'm testing casein-free right now. I highly recommend Earth Balance for butter substitute. Chocolate is hard if you're super sensitive. I think people eat the Enjoy...
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    Oh, wow. I went to Pubmed and there is some evidence for Accutane rarely causing intestinal inflammation. There is a massive study of 30,000 people where they conclude ulcerative colitis but not Crohn's is associated with Accutane. It's retrospective though. I can see where intestinal inflammation could trigger celiac if you're genetically susceptible and...
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    Wow, you are celiac without any question. You could ask for a biopsy, but there isn't much point. Endomysial IgA and deamidated gliadin IgG are both better than 98% specific, and you are high positive on both tests. EVERYTHING is positive so there's really no question of lab error either. Welcome to the gluten-free club. All the cool kids are here...
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    Sorry to tell you this but celiac disease is a permanent autoimmune disease. There is no way to get rid of it. It will not just go away like a wheat allergy because it's a different, less-flexible part of your immune system. Eating gluten is very dangerous for you now because it can increase your risk of cancer, give you nerve damage from vitamin deficiencies...
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    The "Pos Abn, 1:40, and speckled" means you have a small amount of an autoimmune antibody called antinuclear antibodies or ANA, and the pattern is speckled. This link lists the staining patterns and diseases. Open Original Shared Link It looks to me like speckled isn't terribly specific, and you would need rim or homogenous pattern for lupus? We have...
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    Wow, you're going to be a great roommate for her! Keeping from eating gluten in front of her while she is still adjusting is a really considerate thing to do and it will help her get over the shock of a lifelong diet change. As others have said, there are no issues not eating gluten for a little while. (Unless you discover that you are gluten-sensitive...
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    I'll second that. See-through beer is for wussies. I really miss a good pint of Guinness. Not the wretched bottled stuff either. A properly poured nitrogen tap pint from a fresh keg. The Green's Endeavor dubbel is the closest I can come now.
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    I doubt I'm the only one interested. Maybe you could share it for the board?
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    Your hubs brews gluten-free beer? How??? I used to love making homebrew but I didn't know it was possible gluten-free.
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    I'm not sure. It's creamy enough that getting it out of a regular cake pan in one piece would be difficult. Maybe cook it in something attractive enough for serving? You might be able to cut a circle of greased baking parchment to fit in the bottom and a strip to line the sides of a cake pan and be able to turn it out of the pan? I don't know because...
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    Celiac disease and gluten intolerance are NOT the same. Celiac is an autoimmune disease and puts you at risk for more autoimmunity and some cancers. You are absolutely right that the consequences for eating gluten are higher if you're celiac. Your doctor is unusual in realizing that the TTG test only catches celiac 80% of the time. Many doctors don...
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    I was wheat-free as a kid. Breakfast was often egg and/or sausage or bacon, and potatoes of some sort. Mom would make home fries or hash browns but my absolute favorite was Tater Tots. I also ate Cream of Rice cereal, sausage grits, or goats milk (I couldn't have cows milk) and rice chex or rice krispies with banana - make sure you get the gluten-free brown...
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    This one is more like fudge than cake. It goes over really well even among glutenoids. Flourless chocolate cake: In saucepan, melt: 1 c. butter 1 lb. dark chocolate 1/4 c. coffee liqueur (amaretto is really good too!) 1 tsp vanilla In bowl, beat until pale and thick: 7 eggs 1 c. sugar Fold 1/3 of egg mixture into chocolate mixture. Then...
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    In the US, FALCPA does apply to supplements. The only things exempt are prescription meds, liquor, and USDA-regulated foods like meat and eggs. USDA has a separate set of laws that require grain fillers to be declared so wheat is still labeled in meat and poultry. Maltodextrin is almost always made from corn in the US and wheat maltodextrin would be labeled...
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    It's great they caught it so early! It can be hard to diagnose celiac in little kids. It does make sense to get your older daughter tested, especially since she will probably start eating less gluten now so the testing will be harder in the future. There's a lot of recipes and meal ideas on the board. You can absolutely learn to cook, and it's fun...
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    Have you talked to your doctor about the headaches? There are all sorts of meds they can give you to try to either abort the migraine attack or at least make it less miserable. For example, Midrin makes my headaches much more tolerable. Obviously you need to get the CC under control but there is no reason to suffer through the migraines from a mistake...
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    Nope. If they set the cutoff as <20, it means the detection limit is 20 and below that the numbers are not reliable enough to report.
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    Gluten-free/casein-free is a really standard diet to try for autism. It helped my cousin's children who have Asperger's. If you child is doing better off gluten it's well worth a trial of casein-free as well.
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    There should be two sets of numbers, one for your result and one for the normal range of the test. Usually if they put <x, it's an indication that the test was below the limit of detection and thus negative but it's hard to be sure without the normal ranges.
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    Oh, wow. Has he gotten a biopsy or bloodwork? Sounds like celiac complete with DH! I'm really glad you're getting him off gluten.
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    Incorrect. Please stop spreading false rumors about gluten. It's very harmful and confusing to other people on the board. Most plumping solution is saltwater or sodium phosphate. Rarely it's broth, and even more rarely the broth contains gluten.
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    This sort of speculation isn't terribly useful. If you are in a position to be needing whole blood, hypothetical traces of gluten peptides would be the least of your worries.
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    Tirosint Open Original Shared Link
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