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  1. eKatherine
    It's a problem of semantics. The issue is that all people with intestinal damage, most of them pretty sick, are considered to be "celiac", while all people who are gluten-intolerant, from those who are clinically asymptomatic to those who are near death, are lumped in one category as though this is a meaningful characterization for making generalizations...
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    Unfortunately it does happen, but not nearly as often as we are led to think. When I was pregnant 24 years ago, I read studies about this same thing, and naysayers were raising questions about the ballooning CS rate even back then. I had a natural birth with no anesthetic, just a little novocaine to sew up a small tear. I was very hard case.
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    eKatherine replied to taz sharratt's topic in Sports and Fitness

    I used to run, and I recall that the most common suggestion given was larger shoes.
  4. eKatherine
    There are lots of different "plagues". as in "a plague", but only one is nowadays called "the plague". Medical science being what it was at the time (ie, nonexistent), they tended to lump all diseases of a sort in together. Deadly contagious disease (flu, bubonic plague, typhoid)=plague, skin disease (leprosy, psoriasis, dh?)=leprosy... It's not all that...
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    I was up early, but I couldn't get the site up. When I finally did, I was able to see that there had been no posts for 5 hours, so I guess that's how long it was down.
  6. eKatherine
    I think the hot pocket analogy is instructional for someone who has never heard of any of the other types. I was in a classroom, and the subject of savory pies came up. Every single one of the kids was going "Ew, ew, ew...gross!", like they'd never eaten hot pockets or pizza.
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  8. eKatherine
    But you can do this same challenge without scheduling expensive and pointless testing. In fact, if you stay gluten-free long enough, you will probably have an accidental glutening anyway, so you don't need to deliberately do this. If getting a positive test result means you're more likely to stay on the diet, then you definitely should not have the test...
  9. eKatherine
    The doctor's wrong. If you test positive on any one test, you have gluten intolerance, and you need to be gluten-free. You got a positive biopsy, which means you definitely have celiac. Some people with positive biopsies don't have intestinal symptoms, but this does not mean it's safe to eat gluten! Start the gluten-free diet, and ask specific questions as...
  10. eKatherine
    Enterolab has found that many people who test negative but go gluten-free find health improvements.
  11. eKatherine
    I haven't been to Japan, but I studied Japanese and Japanese culture, so you can decide what my advice is worth. The traditional Japanese diet is based on white rice, miso (may contain wheat) soup, and pickles (?). I am not sure about what sort of ingredients labeling you will see, and unless you are very fluent in written Japanese, it would be easy to...
  12. eKatherine
    If you mix the water and flour cold, it will be fine. You may want to use a whip or a blender to do that. You could have saved that lumpy gravy by putting it in the blender. It's a learning process.
  13. eKatherine
    I see you took every article from a provegetarian source. I would have to point out, though, that the recommended protein levels have been repeatedly and reproducibly tested on healthy, sedentary persons and found to be correct, that is, when they consume much less protein than is recommended, they get sick. Extremely active, ill or recuperating people may...
  14. eKatherine
    Did it have eggs and flour in it? What was the consistency like?
  15. eKatherine
    What happens is you get regular mailings from the forum. If they bounce back, eventually they will figure you are no longer there. Try emailing him through this link: https://www.celiac.com/catalog/contact_us.php
  16. eKatherine
    Often you can substitute coconut oil (I buy LouAna brand at Walmart) for butter in cooking and baking. Olive oil is good for cooking, but not generally for baking. You can usually substitute non-dairy "milks" for cow's milk. I haven't bought any Vance's Dari-free yet, but I've got it on my long list. There's really no substitute for cheese that doesn...
  17. eKatherine
    The sites selling these product and the labels on these products never mention celiac, but lots of people take this information to mean that spelt bread is safe. Sometimes the sites say it is safe for people with a "wheat allergy", but they don't say anything about intolerance, which is more common. People who don't know anything about celiac then read the...
  18. eKatherine
    I'm looking for a gluten-free dairy-free cookbook, too, but Incredible Edible Gluten Free Food For Kids must have dairy in almost every recipe. Milk=90 pages Cream=50 pages Cheese=66 pages Butter=86 pages
  19. eKatherine
    I've never heard of a college doing this to commuter students either, but it's just a reflection of the ways that colleges are getting creative in charging fees to students. They weren't expecting you to eat student meals. They were expecting you to gripe to your friends, pay the fees, and let them keep your money for nothing at all.
  20. eKatherine
    I'm obviously not a kid, but I've packed lunches my whole life. Rice paper wrappers are good for wrapping up any kind of salad and/or meat filling.
  21. eKatherine
    You can be sensitive to perfumes and nothing else. Perhaps the health food store you are talking about has one of those open racks of boutique soaps that sits their constantly perfuming the store. Actually, that wouldn't bother me, but a scented candle display I would stay far away from, and if they were burning a scented candle, I couldn't even enter the...
  22. eKatherine
    I've always been a very light sleeper, and if my sleep is disturbed, I'm up for the duration. Often I find I can't get back to sleep when I'm hungry, and at night I may not recognize this. But just a spoonful of peanut butter helps to put my stomach back in the zone for sleep. One remedy I have heard is a hops pillow. I have no idea if it works.
  23. eKatherine
    It looks like you're asking us to answer a great many questions that can only be addressed by running medical studies. Why is that? We can each only speak of our own experiences. I went gluten-free without any gastrointestinal symptoms, and I have not developed any autoimmune diseases to my knowledge, knock on wood.
  24. eKatherine
    As long as you're clearly recovering, you definitely don't need another endoscopy. Don't worry about that.
  25. eKatherine
    I can see that might work if the majority of celiacs were diagnosed and on the gluten-free diet, but right now the demand is pretty small. We're not talking small cost here. If a restaurant wanted to take the steps that would provide reliably safe food, it would cost a great deal of money and inconvenience to them, and it's reasonable to compensate them...
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