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    Happy birthday and may God bless you today!

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      Esther Sparhawk

      Yeah, whatever. I had a 100% outstanding reputation until about a year ago, and then a bunch of people flagged me. I haven't been back since. I used to be this website's best advocate. Now I don't bother telling people about it anymore. Thinking about it just pisses me off.

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    What do you suppose "not formulated to contain gluten" actually means? After all, I'm making choices for my child, not myself. If they can't guarantee that it's completely free of gluten--cross-contaimination included--then I'm not going to use it. It's disappointing, but I must do what's right for my child, not what's easiest for me. But jerseyangel...
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    Oh thanks a bunch! I work at a public school, and we're not allowed to have our cell phones on during school hours. Since I'm out west, and most of the 800 numbers are for companies back east, they're always closed by the time I get off work. On my days off, I make lots of phone calls, but in the mean time, I rely on this forum and local celiacs to help me...
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    My child has celiac disease. We got one of those sprayer shower-cleaners with the "Scrubbing Bubbles" brand cleansers. For about ten days after we bought the Scrubbing Bubbles product, my daughter was sick, with a celiac reaction -- yellow diarrhea, upset stomach, skin problems. But I don't know if it was due to the introduction of the shower cleaner, or...
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    Thanks everyone. I'm going to try to locate some of these dealers, compare prices, and order something. LM, I usually try to search first, but sometimes my search doesn't result in anything useful. That's when I give up and add to the thousands of other discussions. You know how it is...
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    I'm baking a birthday cake for my daughter's birthday, and I need black icing. In the rural area where I live, I can't find food coloring that color. But a local party store carries pre-made, packaged icing from a company called Wilton. The ingredients say: sugar, corn syrup, water, cornstarch-modified, carrageenan, salt, citric acid, sodium benzoate, artificial...
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    As we all know, gluten-free bread dough is gooey stuff. So I want to buy some pans in the shapes of hamburger buns, hot dog buns, and doughnuts. Who sells these? Does anyone know a web site?
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    Elmer's (the glue company) has a lot of gluten-free products, but their finger paints are definitely not gluten-free. I recently contacted them, so I can tell you for sure, their finger paints are not gluten-free. I believe these finger paints are sold under a brand name called, "Ross", but they're actually manufactured by Elmer's. On the flip side, because...
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    My daughter's kindergarten teacher is doing a fun reading project, where the kids read a book (I think it might be The Hungry Caterpillar or something) and eat pudding "Dirt Cups". She contacted me today to let me prepare something comparable for my gluten-free daughter. So here's what a normal "Dirt Cup" contains: Jell-O Pudding crushed Oreo Cookies...
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    P.S. And here's a web site, where you can get clothes, stickers, etcetera that say "gluten-free": Open Original Shared Link
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    My daughter was 2 when we started the gluten-free diet. A year after eating gluten-free, she was finally able to digest milk, so hang in there. His lactose intolerance MAY go away w/ time. (That's not always true, but often true of celiacs.) Can he eat eggs? If so, do you know what deviled eggs are? My daughter loves those! You hard-boil eggs, split...
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    Sarahelizabeth, If you're just starting a gluten-free diet, one of the mistakes I made early on, was to assume that you can substitute ONE type of flour for wheat flour. I'm not trying to criticize anyone else's opinions about various flours on the market, but I think you'll find you'll need to buy or make a flour that's mixed/blended. For example, if...
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    Our favorite boxed mix company (for cookies, buscuits, and muffins) is 123 Gluten Free. But they're not cheap. I save these boxed mixes for holidays, birthdays, and special occassions. It's possible to order from them online, but I think you save money if you can buy from a local vendor. Their sugar cookies are our very favorite. They're scrumptious! But...
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    Okay, they gave me the generic "can't guarantee gluten-free" thing.
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    Hey rpf1007, I'd love to see that list of scientific names for wheat, rye, barley, and oats. Could you post that on this thread? I'm always wondering about hygiene products, because I'm not as familiar with those names for gluten. Mechelle
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    We're using Cascade Complete in our dishwasher. I honestly don't know if it is gluten-free. Does anyone else know? I might have called about it years ago, when we first started the diet, but I can't remember. I would like to hear an update. Our regular dish soap is Dawn, and I called less than six months ago to get confirmation on that one.
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    I don't claim to be nearly as knowledgeable as some of these other folks, but I can tell you that bipolar disorder runs in my family too, and although my daughter hasn't been diagnosed with bipolar or ADHD, I have noticed hyperactivity in her whenever she ingests sugar. It's noticeable too, not just a brief sugar high. She gets moody, over-active, and sometimes...
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    My daughter was given Avon Bath Time Body Paints as a gift. Does anybody know if this product is gluten-free? I've emailed Avon, and when they respond, I'll share the info with everyone. In the mean time, it could take a while to hear back from the Avon company. Sometimes this board is quicker! Hooray for gluten-free Celiac Disease Forum! Mechelle
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    ARCHIVED Feet?

    Esther Sparhawk replied to MDRB's topic in Dermatitis Herpetiformis

    My daughter was less than a year old when the p%$#@# blisters started to appear on the bottoms of her feet. They were in-between her toes, at the base of the foot, and in the little tiny joint crack where the toe meets the foot. This was one of our earliest indicators that she was a celiac (but of course, we didn't figure it out for another year). Because...
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    My daughter is four now, and she was diagnosed by diet only, at age two. Even though she's thriving wonderfully now, and the diet has made all the difference in the world, I still wish I had done the biopsy, while her bowels were still looking damaged. It's too late now. And even when she's fully grown, we'd have to put her back on a wheat diet, make her...
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    My daughter was 2 when I discovered she had celiac disease. We were in the 2nd percentile for growth. Incidentally, now, at age 4 1/2, she's in the 50th percentile-- alas, there is hope! But I can tell you that it took us from August to May, to get her diarrhea to go away. These are some of the things that I just didn't consider, when we first started...
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    I'm both a mom of a kid with celiac disease, and I am also on staff at a school lunchroom. So I see what kids like to eat and what's served at school. These are some of the gluten-free things I like to send in my daughter's lunchbox: deviled eggs w/ gluten-free mayo (they store nicely in a sushi box) gluten-free lunchables (seal one baggie with...
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    There's a family in my community who has similar video footage of their son's fourth birthday party, where he's perfectly normal, then one week later (after vaccination) he's clearly autistic. It's scary that the medical community is in the dark about this. When I saw my daughter's abnormal reaction to vaccines during her baby years, our school nurse...
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    Aack! I'm so aggrivated. I just hate to travel with my daughter, because every single time we travel, she gets glutened! This time we went to see my brother, who is a minister. He took us to church. I packed my daughter some gluten-free cookies for snack time, and I told the Sunday school teacher, please don't let her use anything but Crayola crayons...
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    Buy Dana Korn's book, Kids With Celiac Disease. It's a life saver! It helps you plan for babysitters, school, preschool, family outings, etc... Also, keep checking in on this web site. It offers great recipes and lots of helpful tips from experienced moms and dads. When I first started out, I bought my daughter the crappy gluten-free breads offered...
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