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  1. T.H.
    Just out of curiosity...did you ever call the company to see if Go papaya is processed with wheat? You mentioned the label listed only papaya as an ingredient, but if I'm reading this right, it wasn't listed as gluten free specifically, yes? The majority of dried fruit products that I've encountered are also processed with wheat, but they don't always...
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    Okay, re: the mint - is it the mint family, or true mint that you can't have? I use oregano (greek oregano is my favorite, with a sharper bite), lemon balm, and Thai coriander, for example, but they are in the mint family, I believe, so I wasn't sure if you could have them? Otherwise, I tend to use: parsley sage thyme epazote - a Mexican spice often...
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    You mentioned you were avoiding corn too, yes? If corn turns out to be a problem, and you are very sensitive to it, coffee may be corn contaminated, as well. Corn can be used during the processing of the coffee; the polishing process, if I recall right. :-/
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    Re: the rapidity of the reaction - my reactions are very fast when it comes to gluten. I always react in less than 20 minutes, but usually less than 5 minutes. I've been tested for allergies to wheat, rye and barley, just because it's such a fast reaction so I had wondered, but I don't have an allergy to any grain. It's all the gluten reaction. So essentially...
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    ARCHIVED Pure Spices

    T.H. posted a topic in Super Sensitive People

    The below link is to an article about a recent Canadian study on spices. 63 out of 268 pure spices tested positive for gluten. The range of detected gluten was 5 ppm - 20,000 ppm gluten, however the majority of spices with higher contamination were not domestically processed. And the one with the highest test result is considered to probably have had wheat...
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    "In short, neither my neurologist nor my GI seems to feel that there's a connection between my gut and my head, but I tend to disagree. Who's right, and if it's me, how do I make my case?" Obviously, that's hard to tell but...I'd say that at the very least, your Gi and neurologist both sound pretty ignorant about possible affects of celiac disease, at...
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    ARCHIVED Butter?

    T.H. replied to w8in4dave's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky Gut

    Bartful, I think I can tell you why butter and hard cheese are listed as safe, but people often say they react. From what I've read, it's pretty much the processing that gets you. If you make hard cheese yourself, for example, it's got little to no lactose. Yogurt and buttermilk are the same. The bacteria that helps make these eats up the lactose....
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    One thing that might be worth checking out is sulfite sensitivity. It can cause joint swelling and pain as a symptom (see this blogger's post about what happened to her when she last ate it: Open Original Shared Link ) Potato products are sulfited to keep them from browning (although you may not always see it on the label) and so avoiding potatoes...
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    My family tends to react rather violently to just one crumb of gluten, but I know that's not always the case. I've had a couple adult friends now in the same boat as your little one: undiagnosed, but a trial gluten free diet eliminated many symptoms. Both of the women I know were gluten free for a year or two, and then decided to try gluten again. Both...
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    My daughter was asymptomatic, too, at first. She was diagnosed at age 11. She was only tested because we'd just had the second diagnosis of celiac disease in the family and were testing everyone. All we knew was that she was tired and she had been slowly growing more emotional and anxious over the previous few years. She HAS developed gastro symptoms now...
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    Open Original Shared Link "...In a study of more than 2500 adults, the researchers combined traditional antibody testing (measuring the immune response to gluten) with an assessment of specific genetic risk markers. They found that more than half of the subjects had genetic risk factors for developing celiac disease. This newly developed testing strategy...
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    So, sympathy!! I just found out I can't have onions or garlic a year and a half ago and just...waaaaah. So, what I've been doing is using ginger and/or turmeric. Don't know if these would be okay with Esophigitis or not. The turmeric is an anti-inflammatory, so hopefully not a problem. I also have an herb garden now with every herb in creation....
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    So sorry to hear your daughter is having such trouble! My daughter was diagnosed when she was 11 - she's 15 now - and we went through the same thing. She was just getting sick over and over again. She also had that extreme heightened anxiety and/or panic attacks with crying and screaming sometimes, lots of stomach pain. She gets a little light and sound...
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    Cross contamination might be possible, yeah, especially with the toaster. My father tends to get sick whenever he uses hotel toasters, but he always forgets and does it again the next year he goes on a trip. :-P You might also want to check and see if the gluten-free food in question contained xanthan gum. Some folks have gastro trouble with xanthan...
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    The strictness level will definitely affect you. Every time you react allergically, you're going to be having a slight elevation in your IgE levels, right? For a few days, at least, sometimes longer. And then when it hits a certain threshold, you react. Let's say your IgE is water in a cup, and when the cup overflows, that's you getting hives and/or other...
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    Thank you - appreciate the response. :-)
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    My main experience has been looking into vegetarianism because my husband was a vegetarian. I have a number of foods I can't eat, as well, and it made vegetarianism feel impossible. My husband is very pro-vegetarian, to the point that he was sure I just wasn't thinking hard enough, or trying hard enough, so I felt like I had to look into it as carefully...
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    My daughter was diagnosed as a celiac 3 years ago. 1 1/2 years ago, she was retested via a blood test AND an endoscopy and she had completely healed. Our house is completely gluten free, including cleaning products and even our pet food. My daughter has a severe reaction to gluten - hours of vomiting and a few days of misery following - so it's very easy...
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    When my celiac daughter eats foods that are processed in facilities that process wheat or that are not tested to be <10 ppm, she has trouble too. We have not found any other correlation between these foods she reacts to aside from the above. I don't do well with gluten-free processed foods, either. As for your question about whether you could be sensitive...
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    Colgate-Palmolive, as of last year, was not adding gluten intentionally to any of their products. However, for some products they added a caveat that they can't "guarantee that the ingredients we use are not exposed to any gluten." Palmolive soap is one of the ones listed in the 'can't guarantee' category. Some people are comfortable and still use it, some...
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    If money is an issue, you could always get in touch with a local celiac or gluten free group and put up a message offering to sell the remaining food for a lower cost. Or to sell it in, say, 1 pound amounts or something like that? When I was starting out, that's actually how I got many of my gluten-free grains. A woman had been diagnosed with gluten intolerance...
  22. T.H.
    I don't tolerate processed gluten-free foods, either. There are a few that are certified to lower levels than the average which I can eat and the reaction is not severe, but if I want to avoid all reactions, processed-food-free seems to be the way to go. That said, you might also want to take a look at what ingredients are allowed in your gluten-free food...
  23. T.H.
    My less-sensitive celiac brother can consume it without issue, but my celiac daughter doesn't do so well with it.
  24. T.H.
    We haven't tried it in about a year, but Black Jewell popcorn did well for us. :-) Open Original Shared Link
  25. T.H.
    Can you have wine at all, or does it make you sick? I react to the same thing - perfume, big-time, plus store-bought tomatoes, too. My own reaction has been due to sulfites. They are used as a preservative in the majority of perfumes, which is why I react to those, and they are in a commonly used spray to ripen tomatoes, too. If wine makes you...
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