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Hi Jess Your photos look a lot like my DH. I am not officially diagnosed. I find avoiding gluten in food is not the only fix. Avoiding bakeries, bakery aisles, and watching who is eating what at a cafe/restaurant table I am sharing with others... Among other seemingly crazy things. Last week, after a year of being mostly itch free, I thought I would...

I abide by all the previous comments. It doesn't seem to be commonly shared on here but for me gluten avoidence is in any crumb. Shared kitchens, equipment, plates, cutlery.. All have been a day.. week.. (Sometimes more) of itching, digestive upanddown and sleeplessness etc! If you can't figure out your problem .. Rethink - where is the source. Not just what...

I joined this forum over 2 years ago.. With an email address I no longer use. I don't itch any more. About time I came back and helped out others - like those who stayed, and helped, when I itched head to toe, night after sleepless night for a year or more.

Oh and one final tip: don't work in a bakery

Hi all, I haven't been on the forum since May so it is nice to return with some good news. In May of 2011 I was working in a bakery and after about 6 months I became ill with another sinus infection. I had a few days off sick. First day back at work and six hours later the aweful itch which had started at my feet had made it's way all the way to my head...

this forum via mobile is better but new to me

I've been offline for a.while. My DH has been stable. For a.while. I itch every day but I work etc. as if I've not.

I'm trying to get touch phone savvy but taking time

I've been off this forum for months. My Dh has been okay for a while. Tonight my 9 y/I shows me a wild patch of itchy lesions on his inner elbows.. Not the first signs for him but makes his next 30 years different to mine

You are so right squirmingitch. We've all learnt the hard way, haven't we ?! sigh.. It took me a long while to come to terms with the fact that not eating out (cafe/restaurants and friends/family homes) was going to be for a lifetime. I still occasionally yearn for an easy, yummy, clean-up free snack or meal. But the memory of how bad that all over itch...

I've worked in a supermarket and you are absolutely worthy of being concerned. The regular flour in particular is packed to be exploding flour. Lots of paper bags full of powder which are packed in paper/flimsy bags packed to break. Full stop no argument. In our "true" gluten free environment gluten free is kept away from gluten free. But we a long way...

I'm in Australia so product availability seems to be different. I am sensitive due to my DH. I have tested many "enriched" products much to my skins distress. I now stick to rice only ingredient list that are sourced from Thailand. Here in Aus we have many of these and Thailand doesn't have a history of want/need/forced introduction of wheat based ingredients...

theresa56 Welcome to the forum!! You are one of our rare "diagnosed" DH celiacs. We'd would be incredibly indebted if you told us your 'celiac/DH' journey in detail... if you are willing of course. Many if not most of us are officially undiagnosed so there is no, one, similar story that we share with new comers to our DH posts. Your story could be enlightening...

I'm with our great (and mostly officially un-diagnosed) posters above Stick with the referal to the Uni. Take lots of photos (LOTS of them) starting right NOW. And keep taking them as lesions appear, change, and heal. You seem to be in your early days so photos might tell a thousand words. Write a novel if you have to of your history and current diet etc...

Public and friends/family BBQs were a constant source of cross contamination in my early days. Let us know how you reacted, if at all. Hopefully you are not as sensitive as me !!!