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  1. tarnalberry
    Good luck! I know that dairy is another MAJOR contributor to reflux, so if he's still on that, you may want to think about if you want to try taking him off of it.
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    I have light eyes and am rather light sensitive, but it's not just at night. I see no reason why you can't have light eyes and be night blind, even if it's more common for lighter eyed people to be more light sensitive.
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    I love the things I learn from the Seattle livejournal community. Like Open Original Shared Link having gluten free hamburger buns, and - now in the Fremont location - a dedicated fryer for their gluten-free fries. (gluten-free beer, too, if you drink it.) I might just have to go some time....
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    I think the myth started because MSG stands for monosodium glutamate. But glutamate is an amino acid that we already consume and is a part of many of the proteins in our body. Totally, completely different from gluten.
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    The reason we're not paying much attention to your tests is that the reference numbers for blood sugar don't mean a lot if you have reactive hypoglycemia. Your NUMBERS are not terribly important, rather how fast they change. If you're eating a lot of starches, your blood sugar rises quickly, and if you have reactive hypoglycemia, it falls quickly. It's...
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    Your blood sugar changes all the time - what you have noted are classic hypoglycemic symptoms, and you don't have to have fasting blood sugar levels below 70 for it to be hypoglycemia - it depends on what your body needs. Have you varied the composition of your meals (proportions of fat/protein/carbs/fiber) to see if any particular ratio helps with the symptoms...
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    I would need a better understanding of the impact first. If you label it gluten free, there are legal ramifications for the company. Given that they may have to change their sources on some ingredients frequently, this will undoubtably add to the cost of medications as well, besides the additional cost of testing. As you have seen here, some people react...
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    I would use udi's bread, myself. But I used to use sourdough bread for hamburger "buns" before going gluten free anyway. I've never had a good, fresh gluten-free hamburger bun.
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    Happy birthday, Beautiful!

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    I highly recommend "baby led weaning". No purees, no little itty pits of things. You use the baby's developmental changes to change what they eat. So, basically, you feed them real food, and they can eat of it what they manage to eat. For instance, we started giving Daphne (my six month old) large slices of apple a while ago - something big enough that...
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    I am so sorry! They may be able to tell after delivery, but they may not. Sometimes, babies that have too much genetic damage (not from anything anyone did, just the set of genes they started with) to survive do gestate for a while, but cannot make it to their first day.
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    If I can't feel completely confident that what I'm eating is made by someone who understands the gluten free diet (at least enough to make that dish that time), I won't eat it. If they want to feel that their sensitive little feelings have been bruised because I am not willing to sacrifice my health in order to meet the expectations of what "dinner" means...
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    Why not make a tuna sandwich? Smoothie w/ protein powder? Chicken and rice? Lentil soup? Sausage and potatoes (or other whatever of choice)? I mean, breakfast doesn't have to be "breakfast".
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    My husband is even better about watching out for this than I am. (Gotta love him for it!) They're not inconsiderate (or even ignorant); they're mindless. Seriously, in your own kitchen, are you AWARE of what you're doing with every utensil as you go about things you do many times a day? As you do your job, are you completely AWARE of everything your...
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    The most important test is how you feel. If you feel better being gluten free, why would you choose to feel crappy by eating gluten?
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    Blood on the toilet paper or ON the stool isn't generally a big problem (likely hemmorhoids), but IN the stool, espeically if it's darker, is something to call the doc's office about.
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    Iodine is a necessary "ingredient" in a DH outbreak. So, if she's been getting some gluten, and then had iodine introduced as well, yes, it could certainly by DH. Since she's tested negative and hasn't had it before, it's certainly worth checking to see if it is an iodine allergy (because she'd want to know that for medical reasons) but the sores can also...
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    steel cut oats cook very differently from rolled oats (they need much more time, and often more liquid). I make a crumb topping for baked apples (think apple pie without the crust) with a 1:1 sugar/flour ratio, a bit of cinnamon/cloves/nutmeg, and cut with enough butter to make it crumbly. For the flour, I often use brown rice and millet, but many flours...
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    I'm not the best one to ask - we cosleep now at six months and have no intention of changing that anytime soon or until she is very ready for it. But, I would say that you are not the only one with this going on, and that it may just be her personality and temperment, rather than a food thing. (One of the reasons we cosleep is because, anthropologically...
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    It is standard advice from every source I've ever read not to feed honey to kids under 12 months, due to the fact that honey often harbors small quantities of botulism spores, and their little immune systems aren't yet capabable of handling the load. (There is similar advice for immunocompromised patients to avoid honey for the same reason.) That said...
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    The easiest, lowest fat salad dressing is to buy a GOOD balsamic vinegar (they'll cost you) and just use that. But I generally do something like olive oil, vinegar (either cider, raspberry, white balsamic, or regular balsamic), and spices (often italian seasonings). A little bit of mustard powder will help emulsify it so it doesn't separate.
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    There are lots of things you can try to help with "morning" sickness, and I would encourage you to do so, but time may be the only cure. I found that my blood sugar was FAR more sensitive during the early weeks of pregnancy, and there were lots of foods I couldn't stand. My first trimester was primarily fueled by avocados, really. And eggs. It gets...
  23. tarnalberry
    I don't. For celiac or fibro pain. But I can't stand smoke from most any source (including fireplaces), so I wouldn't even try it.
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    I like that it has forced me to go out of my way to try new things and not fall into a "standard american diet" rut. It means that going dairy free was much easier, cooking for my picky husband is much easier, making modifications for other dietary issues (baby, hubby's high blood pressure, vegetarian friends, etc.) is much easier. The rest of it, I...
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    baked apples.
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