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  1. dilettantesteph
    A friend went to visit family recently and the brother in law went to Trader Joe's to buy gluten-free food for him. An employee told him to get stuff with purple labels. They got him all sorts of gluten containing things like wheat pretzels. This would be funny except that a newbie might actually eat the stuff without checking the ingredients for himself...
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    Yes, I did have problems with them. I really liked them, but I had to give them up. I am intolerant to oat avenin as well as gluten, and they make oat containing products. I assume that is why they bothered me.
  3. dilettantesteph
    One thing that you can try to figure this out is different kinds of salt. If you react differently to different kinds, it might be some other component. Pure salt is NaCl, which your body needs to function, but there are other things in most salt that you buy. There can be things added to prevent caking, iodine as mentioned above, and other minerals can...
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    I have noticed that glutening symptoms are worse when I am having my period, and a few days before. I was very happy when I finally got my diet clean enough that I didn't even notice when my period was coming. It may not be that you ate anything different. There may be something in your diet that you only notice a reaction to when you are having your period...
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    I am a super sensitive celiac. I can eat carefully sourced corn. Regular corn and things made from it are likely to give me a reaction. I believe that it gets cross contaminated during growth, harvest, storage, and shipment. Corn is often grown in rotation with wheat, and usually shared equipment is used. The level of cross contamination involved doesn...
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    Are there reported test results somewhere? I would love to see them. My experience is that the level is considerably lower than that. I think that I have seen a lot of reports of carmel coloring being gluten free unless otherwise stated. http://www.celiac.co...ree#entry789813 Do you react to these products?
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    I'm on my 6th year now. At first I felt wonderful just eliminating bread and cereal. Then I had to learn a lot more about sources of gluten as I became sensitive to far lower levels of gluten. I am very careful about my diet and now my reactions are much less severe. If I try anything new, I only try a little bit at first. That way, if I do react to...
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    I think that it is auto immune and not malabsorption since the symptoms come on quickly upon accidental ingestion of gluten.
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    Some of us react to smaller amounts of gluten than others. Some things that are considered to not be present at all can be present in very small amounts. I am a chemist and routinely do distillations. They are not 100.0000000% perfect. I get spectroscopic analysis of my products. There can be other things in there in small amounts, even things with much...
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    Hi :) & Thanks. I really hope so too.

  11. dilettantesteph

    Hi! I have been feeling well. You've been helping me out a lot on another forum, and was curious to know more about you. Thanks for all your help!

  12. dilettantesteph
    I've never tried it. I did try a tequila with poor results. Let me know if you find one.
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    Thank you! I was reading one of your posts and noticed your signature. Very impressive! :)

  14. dilettantesteph
    I am very sensitive so I buy my grains whole and sort and wash them. I have come across gluten grains as well as corn in my sorghum. I contacted the supplier and they used shared harvesting equipment. They said that they spend two days taking the harvester apart and cleaning it, and they use the first bit for animal feed. I guess they still managed to...
  15. dilettantesteph
    Some gluten free companies use gluten free oats in their products. About 10% of celiacs react to oats as gluten. That might be a problem with Bob's. I don't think it is with Namaste. Some celiacs just do better without processed foods. Some of us are sensitive to lower levels of cc than others.
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    That happens to me too. I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this...keep a food/symptoms journal to figure out what is doing it to you.
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    Sunflowers can be harvested with the same equipment used to harvest wheat: http://www.sunflowernsa.com/growers/harvesting-storage/ It could be cc from that if you are very sensitive.
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    I'm in zone 6 and I covered one of my gardens with garden fabric. I used plumbing pipes to make a structure which is standing up to the snow. It has gotten to 2 degrees yet I am still harvesting cole crops, turnips, rutabaga, beets, carrots, parsnips and probably could lettuce but that garden is collapsed under the snow. Maybe it'll melt and I'll be able...
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    I thought I had problems with Rancho Gordo, but I have problems with lots of stuff. When you find a brand, please post about it and I'll give it a try. I grew my own black beans last year and they were good. I need to try to grow more this summer.
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    This is interesting to read. The FDA did a study of research on how much gluten is safe for a celiac. They came up with a very low number. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/ScienceResearch/ResearchAreas/RiskAssessmentSafetyAssessment/UCM264152.pdf

  21. dilettantesteph
    So much for my gluten free household. I still have my old pointe shoes. Thanks for the information.
  22. dilettantesteph

    As you can see from my picture, my gender is female, not male. Someone has a strange sense of humor and the ability to change peoples profiles.

    1. Lisa

      Lisa

      Your gender setting automatically sets as male unless otherwise selected. No tampering here...

    2. dilettantesteph

      dilettantesteph

      I thought it automatically sets to "not telling". That's what it used to say. That's what other peoples say. That's what I was unable to change it back to.

  23. dilettantesteph
    My idiot doctor told me that it was IBS. I had it for almost 15 years before diagnosis after my son's pediatrician suggested it. It happened in the night and in the day. Sometimes I would have to get up every hour or two all night. It makes it impossible to hold a job. The only way to clean up would be to change my bottom half of clothes and take a shower...
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    You would certainly have to make a lot of changes to pin point the source of your gluten reactions. We had to go on very simple diets for a couple of weeks to get to a baseline healthy state. Then we carefully added new items only one per week watching for gluten reactions to get to a decently varied diet. It took a long time. We still add new foods...
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    My daughter was recently diagnosed and had the same problem. What she did is eat a bunch of something that we knew was cc'ed and then monitored her health. She came up with what she thought were tell tale signs of glutening. Mainly her belly gets huge. She also gets really unpleasant and grumpy but that is hard to self diagnose. Now when her belly is...
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