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[jeliza]

Day 4 of gluten elimination diet, though it feels much longer. I'm grumpy. The kids are not feeling well, though it is hard to tell if that is related, and I'm having a hard time getting them to eat enough.  The elimination diet book says it's too early to tell anything until day 5, and for things like joint pain, usually day 8.

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[boonedog]

Interesting the kids aren't feeling well. Have you added anything to your diets that you didn't before? I noticed when I tried going gluten free to see if that helped my GI issues, that my GI issues got a bit worse. It wasn't the lack of gluten for me that caused it, it was the addition of carageenan to my diet - a common ingredient used to give gluten free items a better texture. Apparently, if you have inflammatory issues to begin with, carageenan can really mess with your GI tract.

[jeliza]

I have some suspicions, but will need more data. I wouldn't be surprised if the balance of what kinds of sugars we're taking in shifted more towards fructose as a result, which was a problem for her before. All those "healthy" natural sugar sources are way heavier in fructose than regular cane/beet sugar. Brown rice/brown rice syrup also gives some people problems, and it's not something she would normally be ingesting without the gluten free baking going on.