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  1. emcmaster
    This has always been my line of thinking. If I want something that is guaranteed 100% safe, I eat an apple. I do think, though, that in the first stages of healing, avoiding any CC is the best way to go. Now that I've been gluten-free for 5+ years, I have a little more "give" when it comes to CC. I have also read in several different places that the...
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    I eat "Only Oats" brand rolled oats and oat bran without problems, but I don't eat them everyday and I've been gluten-free for almost 4 years.
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    I'm thinking it is a secondary intolerance of some sort. I'll be interested to see what you find when you switch his lunch and dinner foods around. Sometimes it's a good thing to completely change your diet. We get into such a routine with what we eat.
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    Hi there! Thanks for the responses! Actually, I don't have any D problems. By slight reaction, I mean cramping and bloating, but it goes away after a day or two whereas with gluten it lasts a week and I have other fun symptoms that go with it. It could be the legume issue. I don't eat legumes but it's been so long since I've had any that I was...
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    Yes - dairy and fat. I stopped being able to tolerate any dairy and only small amounts of fat at a time several years before going gluten-free. I now know that it was because the tips of the villi digest dairy and fat and mine had been destroyed because of the autoimmune reaction to gluten. Once my villi grew back/healed, I could have both again with...
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    AndrewNYC was saying that those type of pills are essentially a hoax where Celiac is concerned. It would be like taking Lactaid if you have a dairy allergy (rather than Lactose intolerance).
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    Just a thought - when you say that he has digestion issues after dinner within an hour, I assume you mean he has to go to the bathroom? If so, could it be not that the dinner is causing a reaction but that it is stimulating him to have to go? For some people, eating makes their bowels move.
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    Seriously? I started having problems with Xanthan Gum a month or two after going gluten-free and have been using Guar Gum ever since. In the last year or so, I've noticed that I usually have a tiny reaction after eating most of my baked goods - cookies, cake, etc. even though I'm making them myself - no gluten, corn, or xanthan gum. I *thought* it might...
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    I do the same. I worry about what is going to happen to naturally gluten-free products if companies fear litigation or similar unfavorable action. We certainly don't need less gluten-free products.
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    I actually react to broccoli. Are you feeling OK thus far?
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    Hi there, I did a complete elimination diet a couple years ago. I used basically the same thing you posted on the first page, but I also left out dairy (which I knew about at the time) and gluten, of course. The main thing to consider, and I still do this, is to only add something questionable when you keep everything else the same so that if you...
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    When people say: "I have Celiac's disease." No, you don't. There wasn't a person that this disease was named after. You have Celiac disease and we are Celiacs. No apostrophe.
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    Symptoms of a glutening can vary widely from person to person, but depression isn't uncommon. Besides the normal bloating and GI upset, I get depressed, fatigued, and super hungry.
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    I drink Silk Nog - half the calories of regular Egg Nog. When I'm wanting to be naughty, I'll drink Horizon's Egg Nog. Good stuff!
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    Calling and demanding they give us a gluten-free facility seems a little presumptuous. Yeah, it would be nice, but they aren't making Chex only for Celiacs and if it is cost-prohibitive - which opening a separate facility seems like it would be - most companies won't do it. Just because something says gluten-free doesn't mean it always, 100% of the time...
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    Yes, if I binge on gluten, it takes more than a month to get back to normal. What helps is cutting out any triggers that normally are OK for me - gas producing foods, dairy, gluten-free grains. If I eat very bland, safe food, I can usually get over it faster.
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    Yes, all Celiacs have sensitivity to the smallest amounts of gluten. The difference between Celiacs is whether you have symptoms at all levels of ingestion. 1/48th of a slice of bread is enough to cause villi damage - so ONE cookie is most definitely going to cause problems for you, even if you don't have a visible reaction. I react within 2 hours if...
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    I guess my first reaction is that it's 100% OK to eat different meals. Sitting together to eat dinner is what makes it a "family dinner" - not eating the same food. But if you are wanting to eat the same foods, I would focus on beans and soy for protein and of course lots of vegetables and fruits. You can do rice, quinoa, amaranth, etc. for grains...
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    Open Original Shared Link This is the one I use - NOW brand Magnesium caps. It appears to be citric acid free. I've been using it for years with no problems. I highly recommend it. You can also buy it on Amazon.
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    I really like Kinnikinnick brand breads. I eat their "white" sandwich bread for most sandwiches but I haven't tried any I didn't like. The loaves come frozen and I defrost what I need each time (usually 2 slices).
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    Well, I can't really sympathize because I really like vegetables. Do you like marinara sauce (or as the italians call it, "gravy")? I really like pretty much any steamed veggies topped with marinara. Often I'll steam up a bunch of asparagus, carrots, zucchini, yellow squash, and red bell pepper and mix it with some precooked pasta, top with "gravy"...
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    2 weeks may not be long enough for you to have sufficiently healed from the most recent glutening. I find that the longer it's been without an accident, the quicker I am to heal if I do get glutened. Case in point: I have spent the last 5 weeks bloated out of my mind because I have gotten glutened over and over again. I'm being super extra careful for...
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    No one can tell you with any certainty how long it will take to heal. It'll depend on a lot of factors such as how damaged you are, how long you've been damaged, etc. Hang in there and try to be super careful with what you eat while you are new to all of it. It's very easy to inadvertently gluten yourself when you are just finding out where gluten lurks...
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    What I find perplexing is that if I actually eat a piece of bread, my reaction is only slightly more severe than if I get glutened through CC. Strange.
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    It depends how often I've been glutened recently. If it's been a while and I've healed from the last time, it might only last a week and after that I'll feel completely fine. If it hasn't been a while, it's about a week of really bad symptoms and then I'll have a couple bad days a week for the next several weeks before it runs its course.
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