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  1. debmidge
    Q: Are these gluten-free cereals subject to cross contamination? That's another consideration.
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    Susan, With all due respect, your reply sounds like the kinds of answers I get from my friends and family who don't understand celiac. They come up with these wild answers like eating beforehand and eating in the car. I feel like saying to them "Don't you think we've thought of that too?" Also, lest anyone forget, the hosts of the wedding have...
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    Let me correct myself, RD ran that story in the 2/04 Edition that I have and it's on pages 120-127. I wonder now if RD is running the story again in their 1/05 issue or if it's an new updated story....
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    Reader's Digest is sold in USA - I believe their headquarters is in NY. It was published 1/04 - I have a copy of that issue.
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    Cheryl If they are doing that on purpose to spite you they are sick people.
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    I am sure all of you will get this one. On Christmas day, I have to have dinner with in laws. My husband is celiac and we are at his sister's house, whom I think has undiagnosed celiac and refuses to get tested, anyway, she's peeling potates and at the same time eating Italian bread with butter; getting bread crumbs in the butter dish and there are bread...
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    Note to celiac3270: Before you read my post, read the one before mine. Thanks. Hi All I hate responding to posts about the raising of children as I do not have any of my own....but I've raised a few in my time. I just want to say that people don't grow up (mature) automatically overnight. The teenager doesn't go from say 16 to 17 and wake...
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    Hi Well he's eating foods with Ok calories; breakfast baby Gerber juice, baby fruit (sometimes) & gluten-free cold or hot cereal. Lunch gluten-free cornbread that I make with some plain broiled chicken; dinner meat & potatoes with gluten-free bread that I make from gluten-free Pantry mix; and each evening a gluten-free yogurt OR gluten-free...
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    Agree with Tom and celiac3270. This enzyme doesn't appear to have the qualities you think it does.
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    After many, many months of pleading with my husband to have endoscopy he did it. He was diagnosed thru blood test 9/03 & responded to gluten-free diet. He's been 100% gluten-free since then. Endoscopy shows: Esophagitis Hiatal hernia gastric polyp (stomach polyp) gastritis in the antrum (where ever that is...) ulcer in the bulb of duodenum...
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    Maltose, according to the CSA's "bible" is: malt sugar dervived from malt extract. Used as a nutrient, sweetener, culture media, and a stabilizer especially in the brewing industry. This means it contains the gluten which celiacs should not eat.
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    Milk is gluten-free despite the cows eat grain....I don't think the farmers are giving the cows grains that contain wheat, oats, barley or rye because they're expensive grains (as compared to grass and hay). The price of the grain determines if a manfacturer uses corn or wheat as the thickener or filler. If wheat prices are higher tha corn, then...
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    My huband who is new celiac, was given Zelnorm by primary care Dr. but never took it, was scared. I did however contact manufacturer NOVARTIS and it is gluten-free. I wondered if it worked for anyone else with celiac. Since he's been gluten-free he's now on the constipated side. Also, I read your post very rapidly and mistook Dom Peridone for Dom...
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    My husband (celiac) describes it as a pressure. I am thinking he needs a Vitamin B shot. Sounds neurological to me and Vit B deficiency can give you leg/foot/hand pain.
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    tammy, Prior to my husband (he's celiac) going gluten-free, he was diagnosed as IBS and for years he did not eat: fruits, vegetables (except for potatoes), spices nor fried foods. We too declined invites to weddings, christenings, etc. based on this. Now he cannot have the gluten foods in addition to the first group I mentioned so it's twice as difficult...
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    Snipe, now you know for the next time. Hope you're feeling better.
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    Now if that guy from "Kid Rock" survived and came out with his "celiac" we'd have something there. We'll never really know what he died from, but we all know that untreated celiac could be a factor (by untreated I mean not following diet 100% for many years) But even still, I'd like to see the numbers for # of confirmed celiacs in USA vs. # of...
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    As a P.S. I have to add that my celiac co worker is 78 years old. I guess he figures what does he have to lose at this age. He came down with celiac disease when he was about 72. WHen I holler at him, he looks at me like he did something wrong. You really can't stay mad at him, but it does make my husband look like he's nuts - that celiac disease really...
  19. debmidge
    RE: Prescription meds The ingredients cannot be changed due to FDA law. So whatever the formula is from the start, is the formula 3 years later. In order to change an ingredient, even the slightest one, would require additional clinical trials, etc. and another series of FDA approvals. Pharmaceutical companies would not want to go thru that for...
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    After putting together my 25th wedding anniversary party I think I can throw my 2 cents in on this one.... 2 out of 3 catering places refused to make a special gluten-free dinner for my husband. The one place which was able to comply was The Westwood in Garwood, NJ (I'll give them a "plug" because they were very accomodating). My advice is...
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    I agree, it seems like society is ignoring Celiac. Other diseases are plastered in the media all over the place, everyday, celiac is only sometimes mentioned. Let's think about this, is the number of people with confirmed celiac about the same number of people in this country with AIDS? There might be more people with celiac than with AIDS or HIV...
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    yes, my husband has celiac (misdiagnosed for 27 years) and I am specifically looking for info about malignant polyps as they relate to the small intestine. Strack: was your husband celiac? The endoscopy does the upper or small intestine. Thanks for any info anyone can give me. deb
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    Hi All I am submitting this as a check to see the response to "has anyone been diagnosed with polyps of small intestine or tumor (adenocarcinoma) of small intestine, as we are told is at a higher incidence than the general population?" And, if yes, what was the outcome?; what is/was your treatment plan? What were your symptoms before diagnosis...
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    My husband has had 3 hernias (not the hiatal kind) - the direct inguinal type over the past 10 years. My theory is that his undiagnosed celiac disease, which was causing him to lose body fat over the years, is an indirect result of the hernias. My theory is that somehow he got to the point of thinness where his body has started to deteriorate his abdominal...
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    Richard, I have a related question concerning CSA. You mentioned that the CSA was fighting the new federal labeling regs. What exactly was their reasoning as to why the labels shouldn't have been changed? Thanks for keeping me up to date. Deb
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