Question:
I am a new celiac disease patient am I am trying to make my way in the gluten free diet. What do you look for in the label on salad dressing? I found two that say "gluten free" on the label, but there is about 100 bottles on the shelf to look through. Is it the vinegar in the dressing? HELP.
Answer: Most salad dressing is inherently gluten free. You look for the same things in it as you would on any other food product. Studies have demonstrated that your common everyday white or distilled vinegar is gluten free, so you don’t have to worry about that. But anything that has malt vinegar in it is not gluten free.
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Question:
My wife has been recently diagnosed with Celiac disease and it is a total change for our household. We do not have children at home so it just the two of us. I plan to go gluten free with her so we don't take a chance on contamination of her food. Can we clean our current kitchen utensils with a cleaner to get the contamination out or do we need to resupply our kitchen? We have already purchased some gluten free foods and have them stored in a special area to avoid contamination also. Any suggestions would be helpful.
Answer:
It sounds like you are already taking better-than-average care to avoid contamination. And I applaud your willingness to join your wife on the gluten free diet. Not everyone is so lucky. You can adequately clean utensils and other kitchen items yourself just by giving them a thorough scrubbing.
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Question:
I'm starting to very highly suspect wheat intolerance in my 14 month old girl (girl of boy/girl twins). She has had bunches of tiny red bumps under both eyes for a couple of months... some near her mouth too. Sometimes they flare up and sometimes they subside...but are always there. Otherwise, she seems fine, but clearly something must be causing these bumps.
The only things I could think of that were prevalent in her daily diet were wheat, oats, and dairy. So I eliminated wheat this week for 5 days. The bumps seemed to get less prominent.
Then I tried a sprouted-bread grilled cheese at lunch today. Within 10 minutes she was rubbing her eyes, and the bumps were red. So, what now?
Should I just say "OK, it's wheat" and eliminate it? Is it necessary to go to an allergist? I hear that some food intolerances resolve by age 3-5... is there anything I can do to help that? Does the GAPS diet make sense?
Answer:
If wheat seems to be causing her symptoms then trust your instinct and remove it from her diet. You’ll know if it’s helping. And if it solve the problem, then that is far more valuable than what you may or may not get from seeing an allergist. But if it’s not making sense, then seek out additional assistance.
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More information on allergy-related issues at the IBS Treatment Center's website.
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1 comments:
I personally would not consider it safe to use any kitchen utensils that are porous. I feel quite certain that I've had problems after re-using plastic storage containers, so my approach would be to pitch any plastic, rubber or wooden kitchen utensils and re-stock these.
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