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    You may also want to check for the presence of xanthan gum in the mixes you use for these deserts.
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    Welcome to the forum, Ida! The blood tests are normally only the first stage of testing for celiac disease. Your physician may very well wish to order an endsocopy with biopsy to check for the damage to the villi that line the small bowel. This damage is the hallmark of celiac disease. So, I would caution you against beginning the gluten free diet until...
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    The Mayo Clinic guidelines for the pretest gluten challenge for the endoscopy/biopsy is two slices of wheat bread (or the gluten equivalent) daily for two weeks. 6-8 weeks for serum antibody testing.
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    "Down to" and including or just "down to" the spice cabinet? Spices can be sources of gluten through cross contamination or purposely from wheat being used as a texturing agent. I wonder if you have developed other food sensitivities in addition to gluten. This is very common, in fact, typical with the celiac community. It would probably be wise to get...
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    Poaching helps some people who have sensitivity to egg protein. No guarantees that it will work for you but it's worth a try. Please note that I am not saying this will enable you to eat all the eggs you want. It may help but you still might have to limit the quantity of eggs you would like to consume. This has been my experience. But eggs are such a powerful...
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    For breakfast, I rotate between gluten-free oatmeal, buckwheat, and Might Tasty Hot Cereal (all of these are Bob's Red Mill products). I put a scoop of Bob's gluten-free flax seed meal in for fiber. I add to that a poached egg, a strip of gluten-free turkey bacon (from Costco), V8 and a glass of either soy milk or skim milk (alternate mornings) with half...
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    Sarge, you worry about many things. If you use several of those alternative grains in rotation I am reasonably certain you won't get an overload of any minerals. Don't make trouble where there is none.
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    I would also add that you and the boys' father need to be test for celiac disease. There is almost a 50% chance that the boys' first degree relatives will have or will develop active celiac disease. They got the genes from you and/or their father. About 40% of the general population carries one or both celiac genes, which only establishes the potential to...
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    Welcome to the forum, belowe! I doubt if delaying gluten free eating until after the biopsy would have a long term impact on their health at their young, resilient age. The Mayo Clinic recommends the daily consumption of two slices of wheat bread (or the gluten equivalent) leading up to either kind of testing so if that would represent cutting back on...
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    People with MCAS/histamine intolerance should avoid fermented food products as they are high in histamine.
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    But this is exactly the struggle the OP is having. She (making and assumption about gender here) is saying that food is one of the few things that gives her pleasure in life. It is a difficult place to be in.
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    Consider creating an information sheet and giving it to them. Just sounds like they need a little education and coaching as to what gluten is and where it is found. You might also check with the cook beforehand when family gathering plans are being made to go over the menu with him/her and ingredient lists. It needs to be handled graciously so that they don...
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    Can you sight any evidence that the bifidobacterium in the kefir will help break down gluten?
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    Like I said, when a first degree relative has been confirmed to have celiac disease the odds go way up for the other family members to have or to eventually develop celiac disease. Your doctor may not be aware of this, however, so he/she may balk at testing other family members unless they have classic symptoms. Third party celiac home test kits are...
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    Welcome to the forum, Erika.ON! Not sure what you are referring to when you say "we checked multiple times". The baby or the in laws' food? "anyone has gone through this and has a positive thing to say?" Are you looking for commentary on the effect this "glutening experience" may have had on the baby you are carrying or how to handle the the situation...
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    H. Pylori is the leading cause of stomach ulcers. The veteran celiacs on this forum will tell you that we cannot trust physicians to know much about our disease. Things are improving slowly in that regard but many physicians are operating on very outdated information and a lot of misinformation. We have learned we have to advocate for our family members...
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    Celiac disease has a genetic potential component to it but in addition to the genes there has to be a triggering stress event to turn the genes on such that the potential becomes active celiac disease. A common triggering event can be a viral infection, such as you mentioned having recently. Getting a proper biopsy done for DH can be difficult. First...
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    Welcome to the forum! You would do well to also get antibody testing for celiac disease if you have not. If you get your rash biopsied and it is confirmed to be DH, that will also prove you have celiac disease since there is no other known cause.
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    the tTG-IGA is a popular celiac antibody test because it combines good sensitivity with good specificity - and it's an inexpensive test. Still, it misses about 20% of those with celiac disease from white European heritage and about 80% of those from black African heritage. That is the value of having a full celiac panel ordered as opposed to just the tTG...
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    Actually, many are of the silent type. I was one of them. A recent study showed that almost 50% of the first degree relatives (parents, siblings, offspring) of those diagnosed with celiac disease had celiac disease themselves when tested but half of them had no symptoms. Symptoms begin to set in eventually as damage to the small bowel villous lining increases...
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    Do you have a first degree relative (parent, sibling or offspring) with celiac disease? If so, your chances of having or developing active celiac disease are almost 50%. Sourdough wheat products and bread products made from heirloom varieties of wheat are tolerated much better by some celiacs than ordinary wheat products. What gluten you are getting...
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    I'm not clear on whether or not you have had a blood draw to check for celiac antibodies. That normally comes before the endoscopy/biopsy. There are specific antibodies produced by celiac disease: https://celiac.org/about-celiac-disease/screening-and-diagnosis/screening/ In the UK if the tTG-IGA numbers are high enough, they often don't even bother with...
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    Welcome to the forum, AnyBunny94! I think you need to take one step at a time. First, you need to find out whether or not you have celiac disease. The first stage of testing for celiac disease involves a simple blood draw and lab analysis to check for certain antibodies that are characteristic of celiac disease. The second stage of testing involves an...
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    I think you may be placing unnecessary restrictions on yourself by making assumptions without lab data to support it. You really do need to get some basic lab work done, at least to start with, and find out if there is something obvious that is preventing you from gaining weight.
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