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    Understood. Maybe it would help to ease into it to to allow whatever acclimation to happen that can rather than jumping right to 2 slices of bread the first day back on gluten.
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    That sounds like a good approach to me. I would make you aware, however that since you have been abstaining from gluten for about four months already you may find that you react more strongly to gluten than before. Over time, once we go gluten free we tend to lose whatever tolerance we used to have when consuming it regularly.
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    The Mayo Clinic guidelines for the pretest endoscopy/biopsy gluten challenge is a minimum of two weeks of daily consumption of two slices of wheat bread or the gluten equivalent.
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    Yes, I am saying that. If in fact you do have DH then you have celiac disease for certain. Celiac disease is the only known cause for it. And we do have people report on this forum that their serology testing was negative but their endoscopy/biopsy was positive for celiac disease. Here is what you said in your first post, "I am convinced by the photos and...
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    To upload photos, click on the three dots in the upper right corner of a new post window and then click on "Edit" and then you will see the tool for attaching photos (or "drag and drop") at the bottom of the Edit window. The trick is you only have a short time windows to do any kind of editing before that feature becomes inactive. So, before you start the...
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    I'm relieved to here the acronym had nothing to do with cannabis!
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    CBDC?
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    The DQ2 gene is the one single gene most strongly associated with celiac disease. To this point in scientific investigation, there are known to be two main genes associated with celiac disease, DQ2 and DQ8. In my understanding, if you have only one of the two, the DQ2 gene indicates greater likelihood of developing celiac disease and greater sensitivity to...
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    Welcome to the forum, Charlotte! This not the total solution but I would make you aware that if he has DH then dietary iodine exacerbates it. Like in iodized table salt or food high in iodine. You an get a biopsy done by a dermatologist to check for DH during an active outbreak. DH is definitive for celiac disease.
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    Understood.
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    In general, try to stay away from cured meat products, aged cheeses and things that are pickled and fermented. Eat fresh food whenever possible instead of canned. Histamine counts increase with time for all food that is stored/preserved in some way. Avoid Avocados, bananas and tomatoes. Those three are known to not only be high in histamine but to also trigger...
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    Avocado, yogurt and bacon are all high histamine foods. Avocado is the worst of the bunch because not only is it high in histamine itself, it also triggers histamine production in the body.
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    But the symptomatic celiac reaction is what we're talking about, not the detection of antibodies in some other system of the body. The antibodies themselves are produced at the site of the inflammation which for celiacs would either be in the small bowel or for those with DH, in the skin.
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    "attract gluten"?
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    To get a true celiac reaction, gluten must come in contact with the villi of the small bowel. It is an enteric phenomenon.
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    Just want to make sure you realize that if you want to be tested for celiac disease you must be eating regular amounts of gluten (1-2 slices of wheat bread or the equivalent daily) leading up to the antibody testing and for two weeks leading up to an endoscopy biopsy. Many people have invalidated their test results by starting the gluten-free diet beforehand...
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    Welcome to the forum, Outlaw! First, "gluten sensitive" is a broad term that encompasses two different health problems involving gluten. One is know ad celiac disease. Have your heard of this? The other is known as NCGS (Non Celiac Gluten Sensitivity). People with celiac disease experience inflammation and damage to the villi that line the small...
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    Scott, would these regs apply only to products made in the USA or does it extend to any product sold in the USA?
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    In addition to what you pointed out, it seems superfluous to say, "people under age 65 with a celiac diagnosis, who didn't get a pneumonia vaccine were nearly thirty-percent more likely to get pneumonia than those who were (not) vaccinated" when you have already said the pneumonia rate between celiacs and non-celiacs is the same. In other words, the 30% higher...
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    But didn't you say in a recent post above that if the MFS is made from one of the 8 allergens (which includes wheat) that it would necessarily have to be so stated?
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    So, the only issue with modified food starch from a celiac perspective then should be if it is made from one of the other two gluten containing grains, barley or rye. Do you know, Jen Ryan, if MFS is ever made from barley or rye?
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    There are some other ingredients in that Gatorade product that could be producing your reaction. What do you know about acesulfame potassium and glycerol ester of rosin (pine tree pitch)?
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    Lactose is the sugar in milk products and many celiacs are lactose intolerant. This intolerance often disappears once the villi have healed. Casein is one of the two major protein components in dairy, the other being whey. Sometimes people who have dairy intolerance do better with fermented dairy products such as yogurt and hard cheeses. The fermenting process...
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    Since your test results were worded "greater than 250" I would assume 250 is the upper limit of whatever testing protocol that particular lab uses. What you need to know is that there are no standards for these celiac antibody tests. Each lab cooks up their own recipe. So, in that scenario it would be impossible to know if you have made significant progress...
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    After reading through this thread, I don't see how you reached that conclusion, robotman2009.
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