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Drink more cold water with lemon and unsweetened green tea than you think you can stand, that definitely helps take the weight off!

a gallon a day!

I had a similar situation on my face last week and it was impetigo! It's a staph skin infection and is very contagious, usually found in children. When the blisters break, it spreads as well, and looks ugly.

It clears up pretty quick with a prescription antibiotic cream, though.

I'd look into it...

I'm thinking of trying to volunteer for the local Hospice, and I was wondering if anyone else had experience with that kind of volunteer work, or even experience with a hospice in general.

It's not like I have a lot of free time (definitely don't ) but it's something that for some reason appeals to me. I took a class on death and dying a year ago and I've been interested in and supportive of hospice ever since. I think I also need another volunteer opportunity, although scouts is very rewarding. I think I could handle it emotionally, or at least I hope I'd be able to.

Any thoughts?

Okay I just did it ad got 80, but not in "hypo event" heh, so now... question is shoudl I try to create one.

Eat sugar babies for breakfast and wait an hour. That'll do it.

It may be harder to have a hypo event this late in the day. Of course, you could just skip dinner, but I wouldn't reccommend it. Hypo episodes can be scary, especially if you're creating one for testing, don't want to terrify Tymber...

I do agree that any publicity is good publicity, but did they really have to go with craziest case scenario?

Couldn't they just have somone starving to death?

I've watched House on and off, and I'm just not a fan. There are better written medical dramas out there (not in terms of accuracy, but in terms of good scripts), IMO. I may be biased in that way, but a lot of people may be biased because they love the show regardless.

Veggies cause the loud, non-smelly gas and meats cause the silent but deadlies.

In celiacs, we're just bad off all around gas wise. I think I read somewhere that the average person has about 2 liters of gas to expell out the back end each day...

Don't quote me though, I'd do a google on it, but I'm at work

OKAY FINE I was a little wrong... bought one for $15 hehe. Now go see how it works (came with 10 strips...)

Well, there goes THAT excuse for my not buying one years ago

Sticking myself gives me the willies

I get little red dots that are usually due to a burst capillary vein. I get them around my eyes when I throw up, and I have some on my arm right now from scratching near a vein too much.

mission corn tortillas are gluten-free, and say so on the label!

I don't know about any other hypo folks, but things like larabars don't do an effin thing for me. They're raw fruit and run through the bloodstream really fast.

Here's what I eat for breakfast, without keeling over at my desk by 10:30...

- Hot dog roll ups (hot dog, american cheese, ketchup in a corn tortilla) It's toddler food but I love it, 2 roll ups do the trick. I usually drink some v-8 also with this.

- Omlette with cheese and spinach. (if you can get away with eggs)

- Grilled cheese sandwich (with v-8 juice)

- A couple of corn cakes or rice cakes with peanut butter and some fruit

- Cereal with milk (are you still dairy free?), but always with bacon or sausage (the jimmy dean precooked stuff ain't bad)

- Fruit smoothie with protein (I haven't done this in a while, so I don't know a good gluten-free protein powder)

- Breakfast tacos (see above about eggs)

- Quesadillas

I usually snack at work also, but it's usually whatever junk food I have in my desk

Nuts and fruit are good mid morning snacks. And jerky, if you can stomach it. Ooh! I just remembered that I have jerky in my desk. SWEET!

I buy very little specialty food, so most of that stuff is easily found at kroger.

I'm quite rushed today, but I remember that too. If I remember right House said the drug was administered to the baby (showed scenes of Chase injecting baby) and wheat gluten was a binder in the drug. We had better double check where we stand on i.v.'s and injected medications.

L.

There's no gluten in injections, and even if there was, it has to be ingested and in the intestine.

I didn't get that part either. Did they have a feeding tube in him? And why was wheat starch a binder in something injected or given through feeding tube? Why were they giving drugs like that orally anyway in a baby that little?

Even if they did, it has to get into your intestines to have an effect.

Steroids are awful drugs, I would say it was a steroid reaction.

I turn into a stoned goldfish.

I feel like I'm stoned (no other way to describe it) and I have the 3-second attention span of a goldfish.

Really.

I would have a lot of blonde moments. A lot.

For example: Once I spend half an hour looking for my keys. I looked high, I looked low, and I was half an hour late for work. You know where I finally found my keys? IN MY HAND! Top that.

I'll ask someone a question and then I won't remember the answer 5 seconds later. Or I'll say something and it doesn't make any sense. It's a lot better now. I don't get so distracted by shiny things

I must say I don't trust it. I have had reactions to every grain alcohol out there, regardless of what they say. ESPECIALLY whiskey.

(Bad enough to have a hangover and still taste the whiskey the next day, even off of one drink, and I'm NO lightweight)...

Oh well, maybe I'm either just super sensitive, or allergic to something else in grain alcohols...

Some people have a yeast problem and they react to distilled alcohols and vinegars.

Distilled liquids (regardless of their grain of origin) are gluten-free because the gluten protein is too large to make it into the steam that makes up the liquid. It's not possible for the gluten to make it in. Unless they add some of the mash back in, it is by definition gluten free.

Here's a link Open Original Shared Link

Yes, I understand the shock value. Yes, I understand going to extremes. Yes, I understand the need for good television.

I *do not* like how Celiac was made akin to schitzophrenia and other psychological diseases. Yes, there is a link, a big link, but now we all look nuts.

Imagine that you or nobody you know knew anything about Celiac. What would you think?

Aside from the fact that the storyline was hastily run together, there are huge flaws.

When did they give her gastritis meds? She complained of stomach pain once, seconds before vomiting blood. As one with celiac and gastritis, I know the meds don't work as well on gluten, but it further confused the issue.

As long as they were throwing random things into her chart, couldn't they have tossed in some gastro stuff to balance the crazies out?

I understand going to extremes, sure, whatever you need to do for good television, but this does anything BUT raise positive awareness for celiac.

DH said that if he knew nothing about celiac and saw that, he would think that it was a psychological disease caused by gluten. Not that they really explained what gluten was.

They did do a decent but very brief job of explaining the malabsorption. I'm disappointed. I really wish Celiac had not been portrayed as causing baby-killing psychosis. How often do you hear of that. And yet, what does it make the unelightened think? Celiacs are nutcases.

I'm not.

That's what I thought. When I saw the previews I was afraid it would show us as nutcases, and here ya go.

I know the symptoms she had are the extreme, and are possible, but still. People will think celiac causes just delusions and baby-killing tendancies from calcium stuff. No mention of vomiting, diarrhea, cramps,weight loss. That's not going to help raise awareness for your run of the mill person. I also know there are many asymptomatic celiacs out there, but I also can't believe the GIG had anything to do with it.

I like how they threw in the rare celiac induced cancer for good measure. Sorry, I'm pissed, that sucked.

I do give them credit for the brief illustration.

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?!?!

The baby was on meds for what, a week, max? With a *little* wheat starch as a binder and he has flat villi?

How did they know the celiac came from her? Why didn't they do a blood test?

What were they doing giving a baby that small oral potassium anyway?

She has the rare intestinal lymphoma with no other classic symptoms?

And what was the psychosis all about?!?!

Welp I guess what it gets down to is aviod simple, high gylimica sugars, and limit complex ones. Make up for the calories with protien and fat, exply deep fried fat! (HEY, Im in the south! LOL)

I've never tested my levels, but my body tells me that I need food, and real food at that RIGHT NOW.

I have a political science degree and need a calculator for simple addition, can you tell?

I agree with Tiffany, a maintenence level Atkins thing makes a whole lot of sense, especially for a numbers thing. Oh, and a candy bar is ok sometimes, just don't eat high sugar stuff all the time. It's not like being gluten-free where you have to be militant about sugar or anything.

Personally, my method is, "I'm nauseous and shakey, I need to eat" It takes a lot of self training to make yourself eat when your tummy feels like crap, it works though.

Here's a well-researched article on milk: Open Original Shared Link

HUH? Typical cup (8oz) of ground coffee, decaf has 2 mg of caffine, regular coffee has 95mg of cafine, where you getting that they are close?

I'm clearly smoking something.

I got my wires crossed. I had read two different things. One was that decaf was actually worse for you than caffenated coffee. Open Original Shared Link

The other thing was someone did a study of coffeehouse decaf and found that it had, in some cases, more caffene than regular coffee. I can't find it now, though. I want to say it was on the today show?

Sorry

So if I were to try and distill this thread to something I can apply.. I need to

1) Try and eat more often, like ever couple-few hours

2) Each "meal" should have a mix of protien, fat and carbs

3) Carbs should be less then 1/2 the meal, and lower on the gylcomic index

4) If crashing, grab a snickers bar

5) peanuts are your friend.

I think Im gonna run out to publix, get the food for life bread, some jelly and peanutbutter and make sandwiches... would that work? PB&J travels well, and cna handle a bit of squishing Like i siad I jsut want somthing foundational, a "safe" spot to start from. Right now I feel so lost again.

Should I drop coffee for a bit, ro swich to decaf? How that play in?

Sounds about right

Personally, I'm not a fan of PB&J, they don't work blood-sugar wise for me. That's just me though, it may work for you. Make sure you put lots of PB on there!

Almonds are also your friend. They're a great snack for the blood sugar minded! They've got protein, fat, and fiber. I eat the blue diamond natural ones.

Snickers bars work to get the sugar back up, but make sure you eat something more substantial as soon as possible after that.

Caffene is something you're going to have to test. Too much in the morning and I'm crashing all day. A cup of coffee is probably ok, and I never understood decaf, since it has almost as much caffene as regular coffee.

Look at the reviews on Amazon, there you'll see a bunch of really pissed celiacs.

Actually, I bet this stie will get hammered. Every here should be ready for it... IF celiac disease is the star of the show, then ppl will hope online, and guess what site comes up first in google..... I feel for the moderators!

Yeah, good luck moderators!

I meant that I hope it doesn't make celiacs look like crazy baby-drowning posessed crazies.