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Only 3 Children's Tylenol That Are Gluten & Soy Free
I was able to talk to someone at Tylenol this morning to confirm if Children's Tylenol was gluten and soy free. There are only 3 of the Children's Tylenols that are gluten free. They are Cherry Blast flavor, Bubble gum favor and Very Strawberry flavor. The rest according to the person I spoke with this morning have gluten in them. She also confirmed that these 3 flavors are also soy free. The glycerine in these 3 Tylenols is synthetic not from a plant source. I have been seeing Tylenol on the gl
Preparing Your Gluten-Free Menu for a Cruise
I am a chef so misspelled words, terrible grammar is what you will get...but I am one of the best of best when it comes to food. Now that you have reserve your sitting seat for your cruise and have received the menus from your ship it is time to prepare what you are going to eat. I am using a menu from Carnival Cruise Line because that is the ship we sail on--I only have great things to say about them. For this teaching course I am using a web site that they said contains the menus for Carnival
Decision, Decision, Decisions
I had my meeting today with the gastroenterologist. She was very nice and had all the relevant info from my doctor. Basically, she indicated that since I have been gluten free off and on for the past 8 months (the last 6 weeks have been on gluten, 5 weeks before that gluten free, 2 months before that on and then about 5 months gluten free before that) she would want to see me do a gluten challenge for 3 - 6 months before doing an endoscopy. She would do one if I really wanted one, but wouldBeing in Control of Your Gluten-Free Diet on a Cruise Ship
I am a chef so misspell words, terrible grammar is what you will get...but I am one of the best of best when it comes to food...believe that. Feel free to ask questions because I want to help like I have helped many others... How to get gluten-free fine dining on a cruise Of course book your ticket first and notify the ticket agent you have a special diet..I assume they put it in the ticket. Your ticket will tell you what sitting you will have for dinner and your table number so alwaysCeliac Going Down Hill
CELIAC UNTREATED,LEADS TO BIGGER PROBLEMS In 2004, I was in fairly good health. I had fibromyalgia, IBS, and chronic bone pain from Arthritis. In May we went on an all expense paid cruise to the caribbean Islands for 8 days. 2 months after we got back, I started getting severe diarrhea, all over aches, abdominal distress. It got so bad I ended up in ER, arrythmia bad, sometimes I thought it was my heart, as my chest hurt also. I found out later, that when they do a tram flap, they sta
Goosebumps: My Whole Foods Frenzy
The Whole Foods Market finally opened (about a 40 minute drive...we do minutes, not miles over here)!! AND I TRIED AND LOVE SO MUCH OF THEIR FOODS ALREADY! I had read and heard about lots of it from people who had been to them. I was so excited to go and my expectations were exceeded. I have not tried everything yet. It's been a little over a week. Here are the things I tried and LOVED: FROZEN meals (heat & serve): 3 Cheese Mac & Cheese Ian's french bread pizza
Rockstars
I attend the Art institute of Dallas in the Graphic Design program, so most of my projects require a lot of work; with that comes, obviously, a lot of time. Like most college students, I stay up all night doing my projects most of the time. I started drinking Rockstar energy drinks because it's the only one I could find that doesn't contain artificial coloring (which have abhorrent effects to my mental state - Red makes me angry - Yellow makes me depressed - if blue effected me in a different wa
Amazing Gluten Information
I am Ki-Ki, a 29 year-old college graduate. I am a teacher. I was diagnosed with Celiac's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome, auto-immune thyroiditis, and ulceritive colitis three years ago when I was still in college, (I was undiagnosed for nearly 2 years and almost dropped out of college from the pain of the symptoms.) As a teacher, I LOVE learning and reading. My family has tried to be very helpful with the disease and has given me tons of support and interestingly, information. I recentl
I Cant Beleve This Is Happining!
Ok, so I just found out im gluten-intolerent and I dont know what to do. All of the food at my school has gluten in it, and nothing i like is gluten free... I dont know what to do. My whole family is the same way and they say that it will get better with time but i still dont beleave them, i mean most of the food i eat has gluten in it, so i have to change my diet, and i cant have Dr. Pepper (my fav drink!), and i bet i cant have gatorade either. I also have to take the food im allowed to eat to
Mind Tricks And Food Logs
I am so glad I am keeping a food log. I have read of other people having this happen....it seemed like when I first reintroduced gluten I had symptoms that were more severe (stomach pains, bloating, burping, etc.), but it almost seems like after a couple of weeks, the symptoms are easing off and I am still on gluten. Here is the trick though. I have been diligently keeping a food log of everything I eat and every symptom I notice, related or not....every burp, every rash, every canker soreFist Mistake In Months
eeek i made a mistake last night, i ate some chocolate with out reading the label (i thought my mom had read it), upon reading it i noticed it had barley malt extract... scince half an hour after having the chocolate i have felt sick, had a headache, stomach ache and high temperature...... this is unusual because i never really had reactions before.. i think im getting a higher sensitivity or somehting
Living in the Garden of Eden
I am Celiac. It is a self-diagnosis and I have yet to find a doctor who even recognizes the disease. I'm still looking. In the meantime, I maintain my own health and try to help others who exhibit the symptoms. Most will refuse the elimination diet. I have learned to accept that fact and pray that those people are not actually gluten intolerant. This is not a death sentence. If you can use a computer, you live in an area that allows for three meals a day. That is a luxury for a large percentage
What's Your Operating System?
Remember DOS? It was the most commonly used operating system for the PC back in the 1980's. Since it is now as extinct as the Dodo, we can amend the acronym for our Celiac Diet in order to ask, "What is your DOS (Diet Operating System)? When my allergist and I were uncertain about what was suddenly ailing me eight years ago, I was handed a printout for a two week EXCLUSION diet. Different foods or groups of foods were to be removed from the diet, with the possibility of being reintro
Me And My Diagnosis
hey all im Nikky, im 15 and i live in the UK. I have 2 sisters and one brother, they are all older than me which is a bit of a pain. I have long brown hair, blue eyes and im tall and slim. I appear shy to people who dont know me but you'll soon see that im actually really talkative. I like going out with my freinds, listening to music and watching T.V. The younger of my sisters has been tested for coeliac several times, all have come back negative and she now has been diagnosed with IBS, i aLucky Lady
Las Vegas was a blast! Planet Hollywood Hotel (across from Bellagio, formerly Aladdin) was really modern, energetic, and cool! I only picked it because it was on a deal website and had good user reviews. We hated the Mandalay Bay the last time we stayed there in October (dirty room at checkin-like ppl had just left-had to get a new one-which almost made us late to Toni Braxton, broken elevators, rude dealers at tables, etc.) We were almost robbed (advantage of dating a detective)! We were dRice Cookers Anyone?
Some time ago I bought a rice cooker. I love it, I can cook anything from omlettes to potatoes and onions to rice dishes. I downloaded a huge 79 page PDF file (apparently from Panasonic, because I can't find another author listed there) of rice cooker recipes that I'm finding are very easy to adapt to a gluten free diet. The only dishes I can find that seem to be hard are the ones that call for flour (bread, cookies, cakes, etc.) Of course y'all probably already know all this, but some of th
Still Hurting
I'm still having problems. I've been on this gluten free diet a month, you'd think I'd be able to go now, but I'm still having problems going to the bathroom. How long does this usually last before I will start getting better? It seems my input is much more than my output, but maybe I'm wrong. I've got an appointment this Wednesday, maybe she'll do something then. But even with my meds I couldn't sleep last night. I woke up very early (which is why I'm writing this morning. I usually dCoincidence Or Fate?
Things are moving more quickly than I thought they might. I just started glutening myself two days ago, and I got a call this morning on an appointment with the GI specialist. It is in 3 1/2 weeks and is a "consultation" so I am assuming will just be a review of my medical history, symptoms and previous testing to decide what to do next. However, I am okay with it...gives me a chance to keep glutening myself with hopefully enough time for more symptoms and reactions to be noticeable. I am cBack To Gluten
So I decided to take the plunge and go back on gluten while waiting for the GI appointment. I was going out of town this weekend and figured this was a good time to fall off the wagon. Yesterday, breakfast glutens included a piece of toast, lunch glutens included fried sweet potatoes that had been dredged in flour and a little slice of carrot cake. This morning I had 2 baking powder biscuits with my boiled egg, and at lunch some turkey soup (had noodles in it) with my salad. My stomach doesnExcellent Recipe
I made this recipe a couple of nights ago and it was wonderful! It's a salmon topped with crab-cake. I got the salmon part of the recipe from the Dallas Morning News. It called for store-bought crab cakes, which of course, have bread in them, so I looked on www.allrecipes.com for a crab cake recipe that I could make myself and tweak to make it gluten-free. It was super easy to make. The recipe said to serve it with a tartar or roumalade sauce and I usually do have to have some kind of sauce
Celiac Makes Strange Bedfellows
Remember that Billy Joel song, "In the Middle of the Night?" I have had a very unwelcome night visitor many times in the past few years. It is the typical dermatitis that goes hand in hand with Celiac disease, or better stated, "hand and nail," because the uncontrollable compulsion to rub and scratch cannot be contained. Here is the sequence. I awake from a sound sleep - conscious of a localized hot spot which is red and round and very visible. Quickly it becomes pimply and extremely itchy.How To Get Better?
Wow! Diagnosed in January by a letter. Could not get an appointment with GI until March? Very overwhelmed. I have been on the diet for 3 weeks. Still not feeling better. How long does it take? I have had bone and joint pain, numbness, fatigue, GI symptoms, nausea, sleeping problems, sinus problems, dizziness, weight loss. I have been sick for 9 mos and have been told I was crazy and there was nothing wrong with me. Every test has been negative except my small intesting biopsy. If any on
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John Scott pointed me to Wiki entry about the effect of diet on hookworm egg production: https://www.helminthictherapywiki.org/wiki/NA_incubation:_very_detailed_method_by_Alana#Promotion_of_egg_viability_by_dietary_manipulation
Nothing presently in my diet was mentioned in the article, but it does bring up the obvious point that my diet would naturally affect the health and wellness of the hookworms that live in my gut. Something to think about.
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Yes, there are several gluten-free certifications out there (one is the GFCO), and the usual standard they claim is 10ppm, however, recent findings indicate that even the GFCO's higher standards may not ensure that foods they certify are gluten-free:
@Lauraferleo Simple Mills may have issues and is included in this article:
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What Parents Need to Know About Raising a Child with Celiac Disease (+Video)
Reared a gluten-free kid who is now doing great in his 40s. Some stress in earlier childhood, but by mid-high school had it all figured out. I heard a comment back then that gave me hope. "By the time a celiac kid reaches college age, he or she has developed a hundred ways to say 'No, thank you' and make it stick." The celiac kids end up knowing that...- 1
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