Sarah Alli

I'm going home to visit my family for Christmas- it's my second Christmas gluten free. My father and sister are both apparently gluten-sensitive although they won't completely switch over. So we're obviously doing a full gluten-free-only holidays. I am a good baker and a competent cook, perhaps that's why I never found being gluten free terribly daunting...

I am definitely going to try altering the recipe next time. I also might just be eating too many, since when I eat chocolate chips I also drink milk... and I'm mildly lactose intolerant. However this morning I got my period so I am thinking that it might be that, and was gastroenteritis last time. My abdominal pain from my gluten intolerance is typically...

Your eyes require lutein to function properly. Go on a lutein free diet and you are shooting yourself in the foot- not to mention you will probably starve since it is in nearly everything from leafy vegetables to animal fats. There isn't really any actual scientific evidence that *-free diets are useful in reducing the symptoms of autism anyway, and this...

I tried a new recipe for chocolate chip cookies about a week ago (Open Original Shared Link quite good, by the way). I had never had amaranth before but I noticed that I felt kind of sick after I ate them. There's a stomach virus going around, though, and I work in a hospital where I'm exposed to every crud and crap that passes through the community. I figured...

This has happened to me too! I am not as careful about iodine as I maybe should be- it's very difficult for me to avoid seafood. But I almost never add salt to anything, except when I'm making peanut butter and I rarely eat highly processed foods- organic cheeses and jams are usually the most processed I get. And yeah, things I never thought of as salty...

I don't really know why someone would miss gluten. I bake and everything I've made tastes as good or better (I love the almondy flavor Pamela's has) as gluteny things. I've made banana bread, oatmeal muffins, coconut cupcakes, cheesecake, chocolate chip cookies, snickerdoodles, on and on. All gluten free, and nobody can tell the difference. I have recipes...

Heck yeah. I'd enjoy my delicious pain au chocolat (that's what I'd eat for sure), earn enough to pay for any further schooling I want to pursue, and they'd get... a six or seven hour video of me passed out, probably snoring. Sounds fair to me!!

No idea where you live, but in the US you have a legal right to a copy of your lab results- something to keep in mind if for some bizarre reason your doctor pushes back. The medical group I use has their own online database, and I can log in and view all my test results at any time. When I have more tests they are automatically uploaded and I am sent an...

Ew, get a new doctor asap. Seriously- to refuse to test someone with an extensive family history? That's bordering on malpractice. That said, if you've been gluten free for three months, you're probably going to get a false negative on a test. You have to be eating gluten for those things to come back positive. Maybe take another look at your diet. How...

For the sake of exploring every possible solution- you're absolutely sure you're not actually being bitten by something, right? Especially on your lower legs, I'd be concerned about ticks and mites from walking through tall grass, but spiders also can leave nasty welts and if you find that they're appearing overnight it might not be a bad idea to wash all...

How much saltwater are you really drinking while you're swimming?

Here's one of my patches (this is my left shin): I wish I had taken a picture last night instead- I got glutened a few days ago and my whole right hand was just totally red and bumpy. Anyway, I haven't been officially diagnosed. I have asthma and allergies so I sort of thought it was just contact dermatitis, but a doctor told me she didn't think...

Oh, I've gone mad all right. Not because of being gluten free though.

Yikes. Take your temperature- if you have anything resembling a fever go straight back to the hospital and this time demand a CT scan. More than likely it is just the celiac, but you really don't want to take any chances if there's a possibility of ruptured appendix or (if you're a lady) ovarian torsion.

Yesterday, my sweetie and I went to Five Guys, this burger joint that is supposedly really good with gluten stuff. Their fries are supposed to be safe because they only put potatoes in the fryer, nothing else. I did lots of research in advance, and when we went in I ordered my burger without a bun and asked the lady to have the person who makes my burger...