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  1. Jestgar
    My boss, who's an MD, suggested 'wheat' to me. I researched gluten and wheat, stopped eating it, and never looked back.
  2. Jestgar
    What a fabulous book!
  3. Jestgar
    Take care of both of you Peter. Sleep well. Hope you have tomorrow off.
  4. Jestgar
    My drinking buddy dumped me to take her mom shopping. Now whadmi supposed to do?? I'll have to have some wodka and think about it.
  5. Jestgar
    Seriously <snort>
  6. Jestgar
    I love to travel, but I rarely eat in restaurants, and I don't eat gluten-free substitutes, so I spend no extra time at all planning my trips.
  7. Jestgar
    Ivar's happy hour is fab. Choose things that look non-breaded. Get the fish tacos without the taco part (they use flour tortillas). Vietnamese in the ID is generally safe. There isn't a lot of soy sauce or wheat in that cuisine.
  8. Jestgar
    Can't resist a challenge only one case associated with celiac Open Original Shared Link No real HLA association Open Original Shared Link Open Original Shared Link
  9. Jestgar
    I looked on PubMed and found one article from 1969 from Romania so I don't think there is any known connection.
  10. Jestgar
    :lol: took me forever to get that!!
  11. Jestgar
    Incompletely penetrant. Probably more than one gene. I think it's likely that gluten intolerance is a gene/gene grouping, and what is classically defined as 'Celiac' is gluten intolerance combined with a few of the HLA types that can interact with the gluten molecule. Since all the studies are only done on biopsy-positive Celiacs, that is the only aspect...
  12. Jestgar
    If I were there I would be beating you over the head with a guide book yelling GO! GO! It's just food. You can always find something to eat, and just as you've learned to cope here, you can learn to cope anywhere.
  13. Jestgar
    I'm going to Spain in August :D and I haven't spent a second wondering about how I'm going to eat. When I travel I buy food from markets. Fruit and veggies are always edible. Ham and smoked meats are pre-cooked. Hard cheese travels well in a backpack. Buy a little hot pot thing when you get there so you have something 'clean' to cook in at hostels...
  14. Jestgar
    I know exactly what you mean by this. There is no need to get the biopsy. What will it tell you that you don't already know? Nothing. What advantage is there to having the report in your medical file? None. What other medical test insists on causing damage to a person in order to convince the doc that there is something wrong? None that I can...
  15. Jestgar
    This was well put. There are no identified "Celiac genes". Having one version of HLA genes versus another may show that you are more likely to get the disease, but it's based on association. A person with blond hair is more likely to have blue eyes because the two are associated. But having blond hair doesn't cause you to have blue eyes, and it isn...
  16. Jestgar
    I'm not sure how this would help. I think that most gas is caused by improperly digested food reaching the colon where it is 'digested' by the resident bacteria, whose waste product is gas. An enema would only get rid of what is in there at the moment, it won't help with everything else that gets moved in by the still badly functioning small intestine.
  17. Jestgar
    just pointing out that your options aren't closed :ph34r:
  18. Jestgar
    not a sports fan, but this video is awesome Open Original Shared Link
  19. Jestgar
    Did they test for allergy (IgE) or intolerance (IgG/IgA)? They are completely different.
  20. Jestgar
    For those slightly less geeky...Open Original Shared Link
  21. Jestgar
    ooohhh he has a cyclon!! love it when p'T quotes herself
  22. Jestgar
    Everyone needs one of Open Original Shared Link
  23. Jestgar
    There are no 'Celiac genes', only a subset of HLA haplotypes that are associated with Celiac - like blue eyes and blond hair are associated. You can have one without the other.
  24. Jestgar
    I agree with everything in this post. Don't change diets until you are done pursuing testing, but after that, take all grains, milk, soy, anything you think might be a problem, out of their diets and see what happens. If they aren't intolerant to the foods you remove, adding them back in later won't be an issue.
  25. Jestgar
    I would say that Celiac/gluten intolerance is a poorly understood disease. For years people have believed that the only manifestations are a damaged gut, and that is all they tested for. All of the antibody tests are based on someone having a damaged gut, or, more specifically, having damage in the upper third of your small intestine that leads to flattened...
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