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No big secret... I run my own servers and run bulletin boards and other similar stuff. But invision is closed source paid for and the support is paid for (but pretty much reliable) so there isn't as much specific information on it freely accessible but if this was one of my BB's this is where I would start looking... I also spent a lot of my professional...
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ARCHIVED I Ate Chicken Nuggets After Talking To My New Doc -- Hellp!
gfp replied to chgomom's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
More importantly does a positive biopsy rule out any of that awful stuff? Much as I am for a greater understanding of the disease ... are you sure your not being used as a guinea pig? -
ARCHIVED More Deaths For Caesarean Babies
gfp replied to gfp's topic in Introduce Yourself / Share Stuff
The new study is apparently the numbers reworked for elective C-section not medically advised and excluding other factors that skew it. In the light of recent threads i thought it somewhat ironic that MSbP is somewhat defined by for instance cot deaths and it seems your at higher risk of cot death with a C-section! Certainly it looks like of you... -
Gmail has the advantage you can download the messages to your local inbox....(free version) you can do this in Yahoo if you pay and I guess MSN/Hotmail of you pay too. (you need to set up the pop options) If you do this you know you have a backup if the terms and conditions ever change and you can set your local email client prog like outlook or thunderbird...
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What are prices for private testing like where you live.... I just got a few tests done and my GP threw in a TtG ... I was a bit put out since its a waste of money until I found out the cost... 2 blood tests (renal) + urine test = €55 (or about $60) so I asked at the lab about IgA and IgG.... €35 ($39) Seems pretty good to me.. specially since I c...
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ARCHIVED Bleu Cheese
gfp replied to Sweetfudge's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
I lean towards this myself, its not actually the bread they are taking just a scraping off the bread and i think they mostly say this for "advertising".. for instance Roquefort Papillion make a big deal about the traditional rye bread but quite how often they go back the the bread is not mentioned... they can just take some of the mould from one of the other... -
ARCHIVED More Deaths For Caesarean Babies
gfp replied to gfp's topic in Introduce Yourself / Share Stuff
but Tony Blair say's they are safe! He wouldn't lie would he? -
In a similar vein (pardon the pun) what about my natural TB immunity? I was completely asymptomatic to the test but they gave me the BCG anyway and I'm the only person I know my age without a TB scar.
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ARCHIVED Is There A Cure?
gfp replied to KayJay's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
That is exactly what most MD's and especially GI's said about taking cyclohexane (a very cheap antibiotic) against being on rantitidine (the wonder drug) for life. Indeed they continued to say that for 5 years after the discovery and tests and had the antibiotics not already been FDA approved the US still wouldn't have a cure for ulcers. -
Then the question is perhaps the one I posed earlier. Can damage to the intestine and inflammation perhaps allow a foot hold for a pathogen which would not normally be able to live in the intestine? Erm... hence why I used sickle cell anaeamia as a analogue.
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ARCHIVED More Deaths For Caesarean Babies
gfp replied to gfp's topic in Introduce Yourself / Share Stuff
Of course, its babies to order... non of that inconveneice for the medical staff with the mother not making enough effort and deliberatly waiting till 2AM to have the baby just to spite them. With this they get the thing to order. -
Pretty certain its an error in the sql database, Most of the posts haven't been updating properly (i.e. views zero and posts 10) However I have no idea about Invision the SW used to power the board since I've never used it myself .... My guess is its using the database but the FLUSH is not set so it grinds to a halt until the requests backup i...
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Glad you picked up on that..... I mean we go to all those lengths and explain a crumb will make us ill and then the food service industry people read that we are just being fussy and pulling out the croutons is perfectly OK? I can imagine the kitchen chat.... "Oops.. just dropped the bread in that Roo burger" "No don't remember the celaic training...
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Well I'm putting this in chat since it affects so many different issues. Open Original Shared Link I'm sure this applies to lots of things from MSbP and cot death to celaics and childbirth.... so if a mod wants to move it fine, I just didn't know where to put it.
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This sounds like #1.... or just that you are not use to it. When I was on vacation I was walking 8-10 hrs a day in very comfy sandals I have worn for years but I got a new blister everyday. That too... larger or better fitting. Often different brands have significant differences especially on the bridge support and the position of the...
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That would be the research I remembered.
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I am pretty certain she doesn't know better but what worries me is that a newspaper should at least do due diligence in not publishing potentially harmful information even in the form of an editorial. For instance I doubt they would have published an editorial (or at least without wanrings) that insulin dependant diabetics should just stop injecting...
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I'm not advocating writing to her but to the newspaper that published this. My letter is one example and people are free to write whatever they like although I rather hope noone here is going to advocate picking out croutons! A mixed response would probably be more effective IMHO anyway with some attempts to educate the "poor little girl" and others...
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Yes but its excessively difficult to transmit person to person in its bubonic form and Roman and Greek citizens didn't have fleas .. they bathed daily and treated their skin with oil.. even the poorest citizen had access to communal baths and even domestic slaves were forced to bathe and no Roman would let an unwashed slave anywhere close to them. Hence...
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I just did, I sent the email to the newspaper. I think if they receive 10 or 100 emails in a similar vein it may have a profound educational effect..especially as I invited them to turn this around into a positive piece! Check the link.. send an Email.
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ARCHIVED How Not Feel Guilty Going From Eating Strict Vegetarian Diet To Eating Some Meat...
gfp replied to em2005's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
.. and I'm not arguing that point and I am far from advocating carnivorism as a healthy diet in humans....we are omnivorous by evolution and plants play as large a role in our nutrients as meats, probably larger. In common with elephants, guinea pigs and one or two other species humans are rather atypical in their inability to synthesise vitamin C. ... -
Well you can start off by influenza. This is historically one of the largest killers. Secondly I don't think bubonic and pneumonic plague was all that common as we are led to believe and most references to "plagues" are actually something more common like cholera or typhoid. In most cases where clear descriptions are available and preserved from...
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So general question to the experts (applying the 20% rule on experts) It seems the HLA haplotype is one of the more studied sequences and better understood sequences in humans. I think mike's hypothesis about this being a genetic mutation giving an advantage in respect to certain illnesses is certainly mertiable and worth persuing. The most common...
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Open Original Shared Link My response....can I suggest a few more?
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Well explain it and Jestgar can translate....for the rest of us. (please Jegstar) I'm still interested in mutation of the HLA and non celiac autism spectrum as well btw.