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  1. cait
    Yeah, my son is picky enough that he'd probably wouldn't be getting what he needs gluten or no. But I think a good bit of his pickiness is from years of stomach trouble while eating gluten. We're gradually stretching his diet. Our pediatrician is pretty unconcerned as long as he's healthy and growing, which he is. My daughter, whose need for gluten-free...
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    Another fan of King Arthur mixes here. We make a batch of chocolate cupcakes and freeze them. Then before a birthday party we pull one out, melt chocolate chips, dip the top in, and toss some sprinkles on. Somehow adding sprinkles makes it all better. We ask his teachers to let us know whenever they're doing anything with food so that we can double...
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    I've been doing this too, though sugar is always the first thing to creep back in for me. I'm trying to reduce it again. I don't 100% avoid grains, but I only have them rarely. Of course, becuase I'm just that lucky, my cholesterol has gone up, so my doctor lectured me about that. Working on finding a new doctor since this one thought I was a head case...
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    We haven't opted for a gluten challenge and testing because trying to keep me from cross contamination while doing a challenge seemed overwhelming (that's the reason we moved to a gluten-free home in the first place). Also, I just can't imagine making him miserable for that long, knowing that many people get inaccurate results after gluten challenges anyway...
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    Last spring we figured out that my son is gluten intolerant-- or at least we think we did. As an infant he had reflux that lasted longer than the typical infant reflux. As a baby/toddler, we wondered if he had a sensitivity to wheat because of face rash after eating bagels a few times and some nasty diaper issues. We never clearly figured out what was...
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    Sadly, he's been very opposed to tofu. Haven't tried it since I figured out that I can't do soy, but he was not a big fan when we had it more regularly. Makes his desire to stay vegetarian kinda tricky...
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    Hmmm...will be filing those ideas away to try. He has been thrilled this week to eat muffins made with almond flour, which at least has something more to it than rice flour. I've been able to use them to bribe him as you describe (eat your broccoli, then you can have the muffin). Adding stuff in is a brilliant idea, and something we haven't tried. It...
  8. cait
    No, we make gluten-free dough for his class when they need it, and I work in the classroom across the hall, so his teacher has easy access to me for checking on materials and project ideas. Any other sources would be crumbs from other kids in his classroom, which is certainly possible, especially since he's a thumb sucker. But if that's the case I don't...
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    We figured out last spring that my son is gluten intolerant. No idea if he has celiac or NCGI, because we figured it out after making our home gluten-free to keep me from constant cross-contamination. He's always had stomach problems-- reflux as a baby/toddler that went on longer than our peds expected, frequent complaints, C&D, and then last winter...
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    cait replied to cait's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I'm totally confused now. As I expected, everything came back normal. Before I got the results though, I started experimenting with b12, and it made a huge difference. I felt human again, and had energy despite the fact that we were traveling and I should have been exhausted. I figured I must have been on the low end of normal and continued taking it...
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    cait replied to cait's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I'll be 35 in a week. Hopefully not perimenopausal yet, but hormones probably worth checking. I'm only taking vitamins/supplements now, including biotin, which is supposed to HELP with this. The only trace of prescription left is the antidepressant I'm weaning from to finish eliminating corn.
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    I use Beautiful Curls on my daughter's hair. We like it, as do our friends who use it on their curly haired daughter.
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    cait replied to cait's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Yes, I have had to be careful about that, Skylark. I have totally bottomed out on energy a few times, so I'm trying to be very conscious about carbs. Planning to try adding some rice or other grains back in carefully to see what my reaction is, because I need to have a few other options. I lost weight before figuring out the gluten thing, and I have yet...
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    cait replied to cait's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Whole 30 is similar to paleo, so yes on the meat. I don't eat red meat because until last fall I had been vegetarian for about 15 years, and hadn't eaten red meat for years before that. Worried about how my body would react to it, and really don't like meat so far, so can only take on so much. I do think eating more protein has been helpful, but again...
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    cait posted a topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I've been gluten free for over a year now. While I've definitely noticed improvement, I can't seem to sustain it. I'll feel better for a while, and then slip back to feeling super fatigued. I've gone through elimination diets and cut out things that bothered me. Helped for a while, then started to backslide again. Am now pretty much following the whole...
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    cait replied to Knoppie's topic in Super Sensitive People

    Wait-- is honey a problem, or do you just have a preferred type? I'm trying to figure out why I still feel like crap, and I do have honey in my tea...
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    Does anyone cook/bake with flour in your house? That can be a big cross contamination issue too.
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    Yes. I was ravenous for a while after going gluten free. Was downright annoying. It did taper off after a little while. I think it's just the body adjusting to the fact that food no longer causes pain. Sounds like you're on the right track with removing gluten.
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    After a year gluten free, I had lost the massive improvement I'd experienced when first gluten-free, and was going downhill. We're doing a slightly less strict version of the Whole 30 diet, so no sugar, grains, legumes, or alcohol (I didn't drink anyway, so that part is easy at least). I was miserable for the first week or so, but then my energy picked...
  20. cait
    Right. That was my understanding as well. I think people come up with a lot of different explanations when they don't want something to be true.
  21. cait
    When we realized that the kids were glutening me, we made our house a gluten free zone (last summer). This winter, my son (3) started alternating between C and sudden D, and mentioned his stomach hurting a lot. I thought we should to a gluten-free trial with him, but my partner was unconvinced (he's not mine biologically, so he wouldn't have a genetic predisposition...
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    Right there with you. Coming up on 11 years with Lyme. Recently determined it is still active infection, but no good way of treating it since I didn't really respond to years of antibiotics and other fun treatment. Continually adjusting my diet to see if I can get anywhere near how I felt right after going gluten-free. No luck. Exhausted, so exhausted...
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    You can absolutely get glutened baking things for them, even if you don't eat it. Also, how old are your children? We had to make our entire house gluten free because our kids were too little to really be careful with their crumbs yet and I kept getting hit by that. They eat gluten out of the house, but in the house we're pretty strictly gluten free.
  24. cait
    I get itching (no rash) from soy and dairy. If you give gluten free a good try and have no luck, it's definitely worth doing an elimination diet to see if there's something else.
  25. cait
    No suggestions, but sympathy. I'm a teacher and I think gluten at school is part of my ongoing issue. I teach 4 and 5 year olds and they eat in the classroom. There are crumbs everywhere, and I get to clean them up. I wish people understood how much of a problem it is. It shouldn't have to be that kids with celiac just can't go to school, or that teachers...
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