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  1. tarnalberry
    additionally, gluten does pass through breastmilk (there's a post on here that lists some of the studies that show this, or you can find the studies yourself on pubmed), so that is also a consideration if the mother supplying the milk is on a wheat including diet.
  2. tarnalberry
    yes, you can get 'back on the wagon'. you may need to do some 'minimal' cooking to reduce your chance of contamination, but making hardboiled eggs isn't too hard, and fresh fruit doesn't take much work either. the other suggestions of finding things that are easy to find and gluten-free are helpful, and while I'm not a lot of help there, the others on this...
  3. tarnalberry
    canola oil is made from rapeseed. it is gluten free.
  4. tarnalberry
    As the tests check for a reaction to the gluten, he needs to be having gluten for a while in order to see that reaction in the blood tests. He should be eating gluten for a few months. The fact that he's so young makes it tricky - the tests are unreliable in children under two years anyway. With being so young, having been gluten-free for six weeks is...
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    Definitely don't give up - with a lot of time and practice, it does get a lot easier. It doesn't have to take away all your freedom at all; it certainly doesn't impact mine, it just requires a bit more planning, and you may have to reconsider the way you think about eating. (It may mean more cooking and bringing your own food if you're out, or changing...
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    The "it's in your head" statement means that he doesn't believe you. In my book, if your doctor can't trust you to be honest in what you're telling him, you can't trust him to take you seriously. There IS validity in psychosomatic disease, but there needs to be trust developed between you and your doctor to ferret out what is pyschosomatic and what isn...
  7. tarnalberry
    And some days, when you've got a cold, you feel better than others, even if you've still got the cold. Symptoms are only one marker of how healthy you are, sometimes, unfortunately. And, with celiac disease, many people show *no* symptoms at all, but still have significant intestinal damage and increased risk of deficiencies, lymphoma, intestinal cancer...
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    I would definitely make sure to always avoid your intolerances, but with the house remodel, please look into seeing an orthopaedist, who can see if there is a joint problem. I'm guessing that your doc didn't take any x-rays or look into anything specific. You definitely shouldn't be dx'ed with arthritis without the bloodwork to show that you have it, or...
  9. tarnalberry
    I'm casein free, but the symptoms are not terribly obvious and it takes a couple days for me to tell there's a problem. I *could*, I suppose, get away with stuff now and again, but clearly my body doesn't like it, or I wouldn't see a change (for the worse) after a few days, so why subject my body to it, ya know? Like many intolerances or food issues, it...
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    If you toast, and then use the 'just enough' liquid (I forget the amount listed on the package), it'll be much lighter and fluffier. I don't have any good recipes beyond the plain toasted and cooked with broth one yet - other than using it under pasta sauce or stir fry. I'll post the tabouleh option when I manage to work that one out. ;-)
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    It's a tricky situation... You were gluten-free for three weeks, and then had what? two slices of bread a day for two months? And then will be eating a lot of gluten every day for three or four weeks before the test? I'd say, at the least, you're in the grey area. If you can push the test back three or four weeks, I'd do it. But you have a chance of...
  12. tarnalberry
    It sounds like the second doctor isn't a good match for you. He might be a 'good' doctor, but if he isn't a good match for you, it doesn't much matter. Your first doctor sounds like a much better doctor, quite honestly, and he had the right idea, suggesting you start with a book, because most dieticians don't know much about the diet, so it would have been...
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    If he's just lactose intolerant (not casein intolerant), then he can use lactaid (the lactase enzyme) to still be able to have milk, unless he's REALLY REALLY intolerant. And in that case, there's still an awful lot of other foods out there he can have, you'll just have to start experimenting and trying a lot of new foods.
  14. tarnalberry
    Yep, a tasty dish. I plan to try it as a substitute for bulgar in tabouleh. And you can use it in pilaf. One thing to make it taste better than regular: Toast it in a hot, dry skillet *before* cooking, until you get a pleasant, nutty smell, and can hear it 'popping', sounding like a light rain. It changes the taste subtly, and it, IMHO, worth the ...
  15. tarnalberry
    You cannot test positive unless you are consuming gluten. The tests look for antibodies - reactions to gluten. If there is no gluten entering your system, there is no reaction. If there is no reaction to see, nothing will appear on the test. You must be consuming gluten (for adults) at a rate of the equivalent of three slices of bread a day for three...
  16. tarnalberry
    Just to let you know - her asthma may or may not go away or improve on the diet, though you may see plenty of other positive results. I too, would encourage holding off on surgery a few weeks to get an idea of the diet will make any difference on the symptoms that would be treated by surgery, but my asthma was not really impacted one way or another by the...
  17. tarnalberry
    I like Ruth's Flax Bars. (Some of the hemp bar flavors have gluten - always check ingredient labels!) They're the closest thing to a real granola bar I've found. (I don't do oats.)
  18. tarnalberry
    If you're finding the meds aren't helping, it's worth talking to your doctor about altering them - different dose, different type, to help you through this change. There's no denying that the gluten free diet is hard to adjust to, particularly if you're used to thinking that you ought to be able to eat anything you want to. If you don't already have a therapist...
  19. tarnalberry
    Oh yeah, nasty contagious. Definitely see your doc. I'm sorry it's so itchy; maybe oral antihistamines would help? I don't know! Maybe they'd at least knock you out (sleep-wise).
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    tarnalberry replied to sarahjo's topic in Doctors

    I'm glad your doctor was willing to listen to dietary results. Some will, and it's a good thing when they do. Diagnostic tests on young children are notoriously slippery, and sometimes you just need them to be healthy, period!
  21. tarnalberry
    a ruth's hemp bar - didn't realize some of the flavors of hemp bar (not flax bar) had barley malt and oats. darnit! it wasn't too bad, but still annoying.
  22. tarnalberry
    Nope, I wouldn't try them. If I wanted to find out if I was not in the group of 5% of celiac or so who react to oats (with my luck, I am), I wouldn't do it on commercially mass produced oats, but on the specialty produced oats that pay attention to contamination sources in the production and refining process, since oats are easily contaminated with wheat...
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    tarnalberry replied to a topic in Publications & Publicity

    congrats! that's fabulous! :-)
  24. tarnalberry
    I never liked Krispy Kreme. They opened one near my college when I was a junior, and a bunch of friends and I went out there, and I'm sitting in the back seat holding the fresh donuts, and they're all scarfing them down, and I tried one of them, and said... "ugh... it's like sugared grease". They all said "more for us!". :-P
  25. tarnalberry
    Hot pastrami w/ extra peppers.... mmmm yeah, that was my fave! WAY better than any Subway sandwhich. :-) I eventually moved on to my favorite sandwhich being a homemade vegetarian sandwhich, but without the whole wheat bread (a particular variety) and cheese... it ain't the same... it just ain' t the same. Ah well, there's more to life than sandwhiches...
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