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  1. cavernio
    Barbour's is one of the spice brands I can get in most stores where I live, and I have a bunch, so I sent them a quick email. This is response I got about all their products, not just spices. Note: These are their products that MAY contain gluten, not the gluten-free ones. Thank you for your request for information on gluten-free products. In response...
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    Skylark is not in great health last I saw. Skylark has also not said that Kraft's products are safe unless the label says otherwise. I trust no one, or at least that's the way it's going.
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    You answered her, telling her it was gluten-free, when Kraft themselves told her it might contain gluten.
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    I'm upset because there's there is misinformation being posted to this board about Kraft products. This has nothing to do with reading a label and everything to do with people asking 'Is blank Kraft product gluten-free?' and people replying 'yes, it is gluten-free'.
  6. cavernio
    I understand that Kraft is being crafty
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    "...we are assured there is no unintentional contact with gluten during every step of the agricultural growing, transportation and manufacturing process." Meaning that those steps ARE NOT in place for their regular foods. It is not just the testing they are missing. Read between the lines. If they said care was taken to not CC ALL of their foods, again...
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    It's hard to misinterpret the wording 'If a Kraft product contains gluten'. I doubt I'm the only person on this site who believes what I did. Sorry if I'm 'too dumb' by trusting advice here. I was just trying to clarify something.
  9. cavernio
    It was gemini's response I didn't like in the first place, not yours skylark.
  10. cavernio
    In my OP you see me say that I'm upset because I lost the only large brand that I thought I could trust, which I trusted because people ON THIS SITE say it's gluten-free while failing to mention the CC possibility. That is why I'm focussing on Kraft. I'm sorry if that's not good enough and I should have checked every other large manufacturer too and made...
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    I know that gluten-free is <20ppm. I also was never under the impression that those other, large brands would be gluten-free without the label as I was with Kraft. There are countless instances on this site where someone says 'It's Kraft and they're gluten-free if the ingredients don't have gluten'
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    Or you can take it to mean that Kraft is too damned lazy to keep flour off their assembly lines. As they've already stated, most of their products contain NO gluten, but they can't confine all of those products to the same assembly lines? Most of us avoid products that say at the bottom 'May contain traces of wheat'. Kraft products never have that on them...
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    cavernio replied to Newbee's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Oh, one more thing about B12, what's considered 'low' in North America is lower than what's considered low in much of Europe and Asia. I had B12 levels at like 220units or something which my doctors said was fine, only to find reading the wikipedia article then (it's been changed since) than in Japan anything under 400units would result in injections.
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    cavernio replied to Newbee's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    So you may think this a little extreme of a suggestion, but you could try fasting for an extended period of time, like a week+. If you're still ingesting something like eggs or dairy that's causing your antibodies to still react, it's probably not going to solve that issue when you start eating them again after the fast. However, fasting puts your immune...
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    I didn't know B12 deficiency causes mania, but I'd bet that it could. (I've got some mentally ill relatives one with bi-polar and one with mania, and recently the daughter finds she does better avoiding gluten and dairy, so she prolly has low b12, and her dad might also be celiac.) About the intrinsic factor and absorption WestyPDX, that kinda makes sense...
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    Haven't tried it, first I've heard of this, sounds interesting though. I can't really tell if I've eaten gluten, so I don't expect this would help me 'get over' eating the gluten. :-) If that works by reducing a histamine response I would be surprised since histamines aren't IgAntibodies, which are supposed to be the ones involved in celiac disease. (Of...
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    Any accidental exposure to gluten would put your time being dairy free back to 0 days since any exposure to gluten will cause intestinal damage. Try again in a month-6 weeks. If you still find yourself reacting to dairy, I'd go 3 months, then 6 months, then a year and another year and I'd probably give up after those last 2 years. I am personally not going...
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    I know you have the best of intentions Karen, but telling someone its time to 'grow up' because they're unsure of how to deal with all the socialness around eating food is, ummm, well...Let's just say Rodmj could be a diagnosed 50 year old who was asking the same question. That he's concerned is the sign of maturity. I'm not diabetic, but if I were I think...
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    OK, so I've read A LOT of people tout that Kraft will be gluten-free unless otherwise stated, especially on this website. I have trusted this information, not really questioned it. I only decided to check this out for myself since I've been buying a lot of kraft sauces that have 'spices' or 'natural flavours' as ingredients, and I thought I should double...
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    cavernio replied to Newbee's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Try going dairy free. Many celiacs' antibodies react to some of the caseins in milk. -Triple check EVERYTHING in your home. Think long and hard about whether there may be residual gluten in your home. All it takes is a minute amount of gluten, so even though you think it all might have 'worn off' by now, a year later, it probably all hasn't. If you are...
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    cavernio replied to cait's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    -Zinc and Magnesium may also be low Are you taking any vitamins? I got more energy even while eating gluten after taking B12 and iron for a couple of months. I don't know what the '30' diet is. Do you much eat meat? -If you get short of breath also get them to examine your lungs and heart. -You may have sleep apnea. Do you snore? Wake up with a sore...
  22. cavernio
    I had to stop using my awesome vegan conditioner, worked so nicely on my hair! (I forget the brand) because wheat protein is listed as an ingredient. Booo. However, just this past year ago or so there's been an abundance of Live Clean products in the grocery stores and pharmacies here in New Brunswick Canada. They are labelled vegan and free of many ingredients...
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    Physically your villi might be able to recover quickly from a glutening, say a couple of weeks. Maybe for your body it will take a couple of months. Maybe if you cheat once only half your intestine or something will react poorly, not all of it. So what, a couple of months with poorer food digestion, so what? You've probably lived with poor digestion for years...
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    Same with me heather, at least for the time being. I feel more of a reaction to dairy than I do gluten! Maybe over time though you and me will both get more sensitive to gluten. I kind of hope I do because, as you say, I just won't know! Like, even if a restaurant or my family cooks me gluten free food, the risk of cross contamination is still pretty high...
  25. cavernio
    Err, I guess you didn't specifically complain about the diarrhea but the pains afterwards and such. It all seems to me just like D that's long lasting and is more painful once your stomach is empty. Like when your digestive system first starts to speed up and push things along to get out, it will have lots of digested food and semi-digested food in it first...
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