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marfa62

By marfa62
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My doctor is working with me as if I have Celiac. The day I stopped eating wheat is the day my reflux symptoms disappeared. My Herpetiformis started to clear, then got worse and it has been a merii go round. The dematologist did biopsy's (ouch) and they came out negative. We are all now confounded.

Here is the kicker. I made home made tomato soup the other night (with rice flour and canned tomatoes, gluten free broth) and I got reflux and burping. I also react to wine. Could it be that it is sulpher? -sulphate in the canned tomatoes, and thus.. sulphites in bread products, not celiac disease that is causing havic on my body.

I have noted asmall, but important group of people with celiac disease have sulfite allergy on this forum. When I did a review of the literature I came up with quite a relationship between sulpher and giladins, the proteins in gluten that cause our problem. The most interesting article was by the Manitoba Dept of Agriculture, who in 2000, did research on increasing sulpher in fertilizer to increase sulpher amino acids. These amino acids are very importabt in increasing giladins and increase the rise in flour. Since then, more and more flour in the US and Canada has been fertilized with sulpher. None of this would end up on a label. But considering that I can not wash my hair or my dishes or brush my teeth without sodium Lauryl sulfate. My point being, that if we already have a sensitivity to giladins and they are made of sulpher amino acids, and our environment, with or without bread products, has more and more sulpher, I would expect we will be seeing more and more sulpher allergies.

May I reccommend the National institutes of health web page on chemicals in products. just google nih sulfites and get a shock over what is in your toothpaste.

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Fiddle-Faddle Community Regular
Fiddle-Faddle
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Fascinating about the sulfur. Never heard about that before. Yikes!

I think most people with reflux do react badly to tomatoes and wine (also citrus and pineapple) as they are so very acidic. I wonder what their sulfur content is?

marfa62 Newbie
marfa62
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Fascinating about the sulfur. Never heard about that before. Yikes!

I think most people with reflux do react badly to tomatoes and wine (also citrus and pineapple) as they are so very acidic. I wonder what their sulfur content is?

Hi Fiddle Faddle, I think I wasn't beeing clear. When I stopped eating gluten, my reflux disappeared. I din't have "real" reflux. So when I ate thetomatoes and got the reflux symptoms, I went looking for sulpher. M

chrissy Collaborator
chrissy
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i have often wondered if the chemicals in our foods are responsible for the increase in so many of our maladies-----it was interesting to hear our ped gi suggest the same thing----i've never heard a doctor express that line of thinking.

christine

p.s. there's always baking soda for brushing your teeth!

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Hi Fiddle Faddle, I think I wasn't beeing clear. When I stopped eating gluten, my reflux disappeared. I din't have "real" reflux. So when I ate thetomatoes and got the reflux symptoms, I went looking for sulpher. M

You may also be sensitive to the nightshade family, this is also fairly common.

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