Celiac disease mailbag. Gluten Dude answers questions from the communty. https://glutendude.com/category/mailbag/ Celiac Disease Advocate Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:15:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://glutendude.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/favicon.png Celiac disease mailbag. Gluten Dude answers questions from the communty. https://glutendude.com/category/mailbag/ 32 32 Dude…I’m getting conflicting advice from doctors. Who’s right?! https://glutendude.com/celiac-conflicting-advice/ https://glutendude.com/celiac-conflicting-advice/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:15:39 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=18609 It’s 2021 (or the 14th month of 2020 depending how you look at it) and we still have doctors who have their head up their arse when it comes to celiac disease. How far up you ask? Here’s an email I received the other day. Hi Gluten Dude, I have just been diagnosed with Celiac …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/celiac-conflicting-advice/feed/ 4 Why Celiac Awareness Matters https://glutendude.com/why-celiac-awareness-matters/ https://glutendude.com/why-celiac-awareness-matters/#comments Fri, 31 May 2019 20:32:06 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=17765 To summarize the end of Celiac Awareness Month (the good, the bad, the ugly – and as always, there was all three), I was going to write a poem. Why? I like writing poems. I wrote one to summarize CAW a few years back and thought it would be a good idea again. I need …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/why-celiac-awareness-matters/feed/ 2 20 Emails in 4 Days: Part IV (the final act) https://glutendude.com/504-plan-for-celiac-disease/ https://glutendude.com/504-plan-for-celiac-disease/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2018 15:08:48 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=17299 Dude note: Five emails per day for four days. Here’s part 4. ——- I sit crying from cross contamination again. Hershey syrup made me sick. Most my co-workers don’t get it. My husband is dairy intolerant, he doesn’t fully get it. I have celiac, hashimotos and mthfr 677/1298. I love my coffee and sugar. I …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/504-plan-for-celiac-disease/feed/ 8 20 Emails in 4 Days: Part III https://glutendude.com/taking-celiac-seriously/ https://glutendude.com/taking-celiac-seriously/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:23:36 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=17271 Dude note: Five emails per day for four days. Here’s part 3. ——- Soooooooooooooooooooo, I was diagnosed with celiac in late October 2016. I spent the next 6 months receiving treatment from a naturopath. I went and had my colonoscopy/endoscopy and the internist didn’t think I had celiac. But I continued to do as I …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/taking-celiac-seriously/feed/ 25 20 Emails in 4 Days: Part II https://glutendude.com/are-rxbars-gluten-free/ https://glutendude.com/are-rxbars-gluten-free/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:23:57 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=17266 Dude note: Five emails per day for four days. Here’s part 2. ——- Dude…I am freaking out. I was diagnosed with celiac 3 years ago. My 14 yr old daughter is traveling to Atlanta from Washington state for a school competition. I am going to support her but so worried about finding safe food. Any …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/are-rxbars-gluten-free/feed/ 11 20 Emails in 4 Days: Part I https://glutendude.com/gluten-challenge/ https://glutendude.com/gluten-challenge/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:32:15 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=17263 Dude note: I’m overwhelmed with all of your emails asking for support. I mean that in both a good way and a bad way. I’m overwhelmed that you would feel comfortable reaching out to me. But I’m overwhelmed in the sense that I now have hundreds of emails awaiting a response. I can’t get to …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/gluten-challenge/feed/ 20 It’s Mailbag Time! https://glutendude.com/are-cheetos-gluten-free/ https://glutendude.com/are-cheetos-gluten-free/#comments Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:50:02 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=16945 What does an envelope say when you lick it? Nothing. It just shuts up. Did you hear the one about the letter without any stamps? You wouldn’t get it. What starts with a P, ends with an E, and has a million letters in it? Post Office Yep…it’s mailbag time. Hey Gluten Dude, long time …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/are-cheetos-gluten-free/feed/ 17 5 Questions. 5 Answers. (Part One) https://glutendude.com/answering-your-questions-about-celiac/ https://glutendude.com/answering-your-questions-about-celiac/#comments Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:29:10 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=16667 I currently have 4,203 emails in my Gluten Dude inbox. No…these are not all reader emails (but a lot of them are!). I also get an email whenever someone leaves a comment on my site. And oddly enough, my inbox also includes one from the CDF, who actually (and possibly illegally) added me to their …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/answering-your-questions-about-celiac/feed/ 17 It’s the May Mailbag https://glutendude.com/its-the-may-celiac-mailbag/ https://glutendude.com/its-the-may-celiac-mailbag/#comments Thu, 18 May 2017 12:46:18 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=16263 Forgive me community for I have sinned. It has been 15 days since my last blog post. Definitely my longest stretch between posts. I even got this email yesterday: Gluten Dude. Did you get bored with your blog? Is it discontinued? Nothing recent has been posted. If you got a better gig, congratulations. If you …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/its-the-may-celiac-mailbag/feed/ 11 Mailbag Time https://glutendude.com/questions-about-celiac/ https://glutendude.com/questions-about-celiac/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:04:53 +0000 http://glutendude.com/?p=15903 It’s six in the morning and I’ve been up for 4 hours already. Yeah…sleep has not been my friend lately. Before I go grab my 13th cup of coffee, let’s do a quick mailbag. Hey Dude! (You ROCK!!) I am your redheaded Celiac sister in Indiana. I love the work you are doing for us …

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