Saturday, April 24, 2010

Gluten Intolerant?


So if any of you know my husband, you know that he's had intestinal issues for years. He started getting sick in college, and doctors have never been able to figure out why. Two years ago he had his gallbladder taken out, which we thought would help, and maybe it did.. a little. Anyway, a friend of ours is gluten intolerant and she was explaining to Verge the symptoms that led up to her discovery. Verge has been told his symptoms were anywhere from lactose intolerance, Chrones disease, IBS, stress, etc. and many of these are misdiagnoses for gluten intolerance or celiac disease. All that to say he has an app with an allergy specialist tuesday morning, and I'm praying that they figure it out for sure. We read it takes an average of 8-10 years for someone to be diagnosed from the time they have their first symptom. Anyway, that was a long introduction to our meal.. I was going to make chicken noodle soup, but since we're trying to stay away from gluten until we know for sure with the blood test, I made chicken and wild rice soup. it was DELICIOUS!! It had cumin and red pepper flakes which gave it a zip!! (that's the picture above). we'll let you know what the dr says!!

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