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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: obbie on April 08, 2012, 12:49:43 am
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:) Hi, I am wondering if my daughter could be gluten intolerent.
Any ideas, or sites you can suggest.
I am about to check out Quirkey jo's blog.
Also, where can I find info on the elimination diet.
Thanks,
Robyn :) :)
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Try http://www.sch.edu.au/health/factsheets/joint/?coeliac_disease.htm
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Thanks Dizzy
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It's not just coeliacs who can be gluten intolerant.
My partner is intolerant to gluten as well.
Best thing to do is to take your child to a doctor you trust with your concerns.
Take a food diary of everything she eats and any reactions she has. Hopefully she can deal with small amounts so you don't have to get too extreme but just keep in mind that some are that sensitive!
I am currently doing the same for myself so I know some of this... :-))
Good luck and I hope your DD is feeling better fast! :-*
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what makes you think she might be gluten intolerant?
I have a gluten intolerance, as do numerous members of my extended family. everyone who has been tested for coeliac has come back with a negative result, but the gluten intolerance is very real.
many many doctors have absolutely no idea when it comes to gluten intolerance.
a food diary is a must, to take with you when you see someone. a doctor with an interest in food intolerance would be a good place to start, or get a referral to a dietitian or see a naturopath as they are more likely to have a working knowledge of food intolerance. if you don't think they know what they're talking about, then find someone you trust.
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A food diary is a must. We thought I was gluten intolerant last year and started a diary, only to narrow it down to a wheat intolerance. My body is certainly much happier now if I stay off the wheat and it doesn't take very much at all to set me off again (i.e. a wrap in desperation of food one day when we were away from home unprepared :().
You need to be really diligent with your food diary, listing sauces/condiments that you use as well in it so you can trace back ingredients in that as well if you need to.
Good luck Robyn, hope you get to the bottom of it SOON and your daughter is feeling much better :-* :-*
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If you do suspect gluten intolerance then I would highly recommend seeing your GP to rule out Coeliac disease before removing gluten containing foods from her diet.
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A food diary and your GP would probably be your first port of call. My daughter was diagnosed in her 20s with
ceoliacs and looking back I think she was always had been but it just hit head on later for her. I wish I had been a bit more dilligent
when she was younger.
Welcome to the forum chaos.
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Thanks, i'll do a food diary for her.
She has tummy troubles after cakes, bread, wraps, ect.
I'll get a drs appointment this week.
thanks, Robyn
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poor love,i hope is she better soon.
hello and welcome to the forum chaos ;D
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Good luck Robyn, I hope you get the answers you are after.
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Robyn, I think it is important to check if your daughter is coeliac. If she is not, I would definitely follow through with food diary etc.
When my daughter and I tried a month gluten free (at the recommendation of our rheumatologist), then ate normally to see how we reacted, it was interesting.. My daughters symptoms did not change. Over three days away together and back on gluten I could not close my belt, buckle my shoes, wear my rings and had abdo pain and diarrhea., and all the arthralgia was back.
No coeliac, but definitely gluten intolerant. So regardless of know all health practioners it does happen! by the way I have been GF since 1997. It's no fad. Robyn, I hope you get some answers for your daughter.
And welcome chaos.
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Hope you can get it sorted soon obbie.
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Well, a update today.
Blood test show , now it has to be gluten free, and dairy free.
So now the hard work starts, see how we go with the changes in diet.
Robyn ???
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Oh Robyn - not so much hard work but a shift - a big one at that - but it will all fall into place, At least now you have an explanation,
Couldn't help noticing your signature. . . My Thermomix brings love, laughter, happiness, and great food to my kitchen You're so lucky to have the TMX in your kitchen so you can really keep an eye on what goes into what and not have to worry about hidden ingredients in bought packaged stuff. And I'm sure your daughter will soon notice how much better she feels when she avoids certain foods and replaces them with something else that tastes just as good, if not better! Good luck! :D
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Obbie you have some organizing to do by the sounds of it to change foods and ingredients. Will be a learning curb for you guys. Hope you don't find it to hard to adjust. I guess now a lot of what you prepare will be dairy and Gluten free for the whole family.
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I am a coeliac and the advice for anyone considering a gluten elimination diet - whether they are truly Coeliac or not is NOT to eliminate gluten from your diet without seeking advice from your GP or a dietician. There are obviously many causes of gastrointestinal problems, not just gluten intolerance and to eliminate gluten effectively means you may then miss out on essential components of your food intake that you need not remove from your diet. I certainly would be asking for genetic testing but only a small percentage of those patients with the two known hereditary genes for Coeliac disease actually develop the condition. The only true way of diagnosing true gluten intolerance ie Coeliac disease is a small bowel biopsy via a gastroscopy. If someone is actually gluten intolerant and has removed gluten from their diet prior to a gastroscopy, the small intestine may have had enough time to recover and give an equivocal result re gluten intolerance. At the very least, I would be seeking advice from a dietician prior to removing gluten from any diet as firstly you need to know exactly what to look for when buying ingredients etc as many foods which you may think are gluten free are not and even the tiniest amount of gluten intake for some of us provokes a violent reaction. Secondly, the dietician can advise you in what foods you can have and how to compensate for those foods you have to avoid.
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Thanks again.
We went to a natropath / dietician, and I have a meal plan ideas on what she can and can't have.
I was really impressed.
Goldfish, it will a shift, but not that much.
I am looking forward to the changes for the family.
Robyn ;D