You darn gluten
 

Anyone participating in a gluten-free diet? Anyone notice a difference with respect to food allergies?

Beer these days is really ****ing my skin up (I know it's sad, I love microbrews). Thinking about switching to some gluten free beer and see if it helps.

Sounds like your gluten for punishment

Do you ACTUALLY have a wheat allergy, or are you self-diagnosed?

Self diagnosing at this point. I did have an allergy scratch test done about 3 years ago with no major allergies identified. I also have a screwed up immune system. Persistent bouts with Eczema, Psoriasis..MRSA...I'm a mess about one week every other month.

Gloobin Gleebin Globbin Globin

Our youngest daughter is 17 months old. In the last five months she has been on 4 different antibiotics for a UTI, a sinus infection, and an ear infection. We have asked the doctors over and over what is causing all of these infections and they say they don't know, but they sure as shit are quick to give her some antibiotic. Anyway, we have grown tired of hearing, "I don't know" so we went else where to seek a more natural approach to health. We got in contact with a Holistic Health Care Practitioner and she suggested to cut out the gluten, dairy, and sugar in her diet. We don't know if she is actually allergic to gluten, but at least she was able to give us a possible reason instead of just saying she didn't know and then try to dope my kid up.

I would find a better way of identifying possible food allergies, before just randomly removing things from your diet. Especially such awesome items as beer.

Self diagnosis is terribly inaccurate, for many reasons.

I would tend to agree with you but its tough when you have to wake up in the middle of the night to put hydrocotisone cream on your balls that now resemble Rudolph's nose (x2) after drinking five Dogfish Head 90Min that evening.

Yea it's better to burn out than faid awaay!

You might want to cut out the beer unless you like swollen, glowing balls

Her problem could be that she is eating books. Might be worth looking into.

I don't even know what gluten is but it must be delicious since it seems to be in all my favorite foods!

my wife is on a gluten free diet and when she gets beer she gets New Grist from (I believe) Lakefront Brewery.

I like it as well. If it wasn't 10 bucks a 6 pack I'd drink it exclusively.

Have tried Redbridge from Anheuser Busch (horrible imo) and a gluten free offering from Bard's Tale (pretty good).

Yea, you're right. I should let the doctors pump my little girl full of some unknown chemical instead of skipping a couple of glasses of milk or a couple of slices of bread. :thumb:

ROFL good catch

No beer? My glob, man. I could not survive.

You could try an elimination diet first. Slowly add back food till you find out what makes you feel crappy. Could be something like dairy.

If you're on a gluten free diet, its about a 50/50 shot you don't need to be on it.

http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disor...celiac-disease

No wonder its a 7 billion dollar a year industry.

I have that stuck in my head now! ROFL

Never said that.

Good chance the issues could be environmental. The fact that this person told you to cut out all of these and not just try one at a time should raise a red flag.

She did say that. I was giving an overall view of what was going on.

Hope that works for your little girl.

My diet is inherently gluten free. I can't tell you for sure if it was the gluten, but pretty much every bodily function of mine has got better.

Did you go out and start buying "Gluten Free" stuff or do just avoid it all together?

ditto

i ditched gluten and grains... a ton of minor ailments improved, mood and energy as well

gluten-free products are as processed as most other crap...avoid

thanks for the tip :thumb:

I've been on a gluten free diet for almost two years now, but I have an actual gluten sensitivity. It used to screw with my stomach/digestion something terrible, but the last straw was when I got a small bowel obstruction because of it. That's actually dangerous. Whether or not you have a gluten allergy, cutting it out of your diet will do nothing but good for you.

My wife has been doing it for three years. She would get some nasty headaches, but after going gluten free, they went away.

lol. We still don't know but we feel better about it huh?

Get a new doctor (coming from someone who probably has as much experience in this area as anyone on this board, kids and drs.)
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This.

Any respectable practitioner would have gone one at a time. Only way to know, well except for allergy test that actual doctors would do.
And ftr I wouldn't call antibiotics "unknown substances". And I'm all for less medication
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Have they done an actual culture of the infection? (hint: this had to be done prior to taking antibiotics for the infection, at diagnosis iirc)

Only way the docs know if the antibody it's the correct one.

Seems a better idea than just taking shit out of the child's diet
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This thread would be cooler with we replaced the final "n" with an "s" and filled this thread with pictures of glorious womens' glutes!

What's the "hint" for. They've only done one culture and it came back as an "unknown ,possible" bacteria. That was the last time. They said it was viral the whole time and then said it could be a bacterial infection so they gave us the antibiotics. Then she got a ear infection. More antibiotics, then another infection, more antibiotics. In the nicest way I can ask, please refrain from talking about this subject like I haven't been going through it for the past 9 months.

no offense, but IMO you might not be going about it in the manner most likely to get the issues resolved.

Not like I haven't been dealing with these issues for eleven years, with a child who can't communicate when and what is going on.

One culture after multiple infections that came back unknown?

Not flying over here.

But whatever, just take anything it COULD be out of their diet and make them have dietary issues possibly for life, that's the ticket
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Oh and no reason to be nice if you don't want to, I'm a big boy
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