r/interesting • u/Stock_Side_9726 • 20d ago
Wholesome Mister Memphis here into the yearbook š¤©
Girl with celiac disease takes her alert dog to school everyday and he made it into the school yearbook, how wholesome this is really ā¤ļøāš©¹
It heals my heart
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u/real_hungarian 20d ago edited 20d ago
"upstanding Christian gentleman of fair wealth and steady character" with 27 abused ex-wives, 134 mistresses and 54 children strewn around his 13 mansions over the world who he either completely ignores or beats severely
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u/Shadowcam 20d ago
"Father, can you give us some of that steak so we have more than gruel for dinner?"
[The child was then beaten severely]
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u/Economy-Pin-4907 20d ago
Why is her having celiac disease relevant does the dog alert her when breads nearby
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u/MikoSkyns 20d ago
I think this is bullshit. I googled the dogs name and came across a website saying she has diabetes. Wanna bet if I dive deeper I'll find ten other websites saying she has ten other conditions?
https://www.herfamily.ie/parenting/family/little-girl-alert-dog-insisted-feature-yearbook-261685
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u/HappySmilingDog 20d ago
Im type 1 and I have celiac, dogs can be used for type 1 but for celiac I doubt it. But yeah when you have this you are more prone to have type1+hashimoto
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u/Ent_Trip_Newer 20d ago
Yep fellow Celiac here. We have discussed dogs being used extensively on.our own sub.
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u/Whelp_of_Hurin 20d ago
Do they smell your food before you eat it and warn you away, or smell you after you've eaten and warn you that trouble is incoming?
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u/Ent_Trip_Newer 19d ago
Most of us know soon after if we have been glutened and there's not much we can do. The idea is they sniff the food first but there doesn't seem to be a ton of science behind it. But to be honest celiacs are largely ignored in the U.S. .
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u/BiteyHorse 20d ago
How many of the people in that sub actually have celiac, do you think?
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u/Ent_Trip_Newer 20d ago
From what I have seen most there have gone through the extensive diagnostic procedures or their loved one has. Do you think we are faking this? And if so why? It makes life entirely more difficult and far less enjoyable and that's not even with all the medical consequences.
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u/greatercolorado 20d ago edited 20d ago
If a dog can smell the difference in blood sugar, it can smell gluten.
A gluten detecting dog honestly seems like a better investment than a Nima sensor or its equivalents. With those, it takes like 5 minutes for a result to come back for one item at a time. Dogs are instant and can test your entire school lunch, etc.
Edit: I, and most of Reddit most of the time, really should have looked this up before commenting. Gluten has no odor. Dogs can smell and notify that theyāve detected the grains that carry gluten, but not gluten itself. They cannot detect everything that has gluten. They may be helpful, but theyāre far from perfect.
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u/Expendable_Red_Shirt 20d ago
They may be helpful, but theyāre far from perfect.
False. Dogs are perfect. It's the gluten that is wrong.
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u/Careless-Weather8877 20d ago
Drug dogs donāt actually smell most drugs. They smell the chemical precursors that arenāt properly removed from them.
Pure meth has no āsmellā but residual solvents do.
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u/SmallPurplePeopleEat 20d ago
Is that why cocaine smells like gasoline? Um, so I've been told.
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u/Auctoritate 20d ago
Yes, but in this scenario it's not because of 'chemical precursors'. It's because literal gasoline was used as a solvent in the process of making that cocaine.
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u/Careless-Weather8877 20d ago
Yes if you ever watch his Coke is processed I. Colombia it usually involves a giant bath of kerosene.
And maybe I mis remember but they also smuggle it via gas tanks. So it could be either or
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u/know-it-mall 20d ago
Why would you need a gluten detecting dog anyway? She just can't eat other people's food.
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u/DowntownTicket 20d ago
Training a dog to smell food to detect gluten but NOT eat it must've been tricky lol
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u/No_Glove6542 20d ago
Maybe. But itās not rare that someone with an immune system disorder has multiple issues. Type 1 diabetes is an immune system disorder just like celiacs.
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u/dchiculat 20d ago
But the dog probably is not for detecting gluten though
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u/Round_Bound_Mound 20d ago
Dogs can detect low blood sugar, kids arenāt great at knowing their own bodies, they canāt identify they feel like they have low blood sugar like an adult can.
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u/rtetzloff 20d ago
I don't know how effective, but they're allegedly trainable for detecting gluten:
https://www.celiacservicedogs.com/
This is the first I've heard of it.
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u/poopholes3 20d ago
I could maybe see someone with a peanut allergy, as it can close your windpipe and kill you in seconds. But as a fellow celiac, I agree its silly. If I accidentally eat gluten, its unpleasant but not life threatening. I too was surprised to hear of a service dog for celiac, first for me and I have been celiac for 25 years.
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u/Acceptable-Ad1560 20d ago
Celiac can be life threatening.
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u/poopholes3 20d ago
News to me, as someone who had been celiac for over 25 years. It must be extremely rare.
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u/Cessnaporsche01 20d ago
I think they mean like, if we keep eating gluten continuously over a long period. I had a friend who didn't get diagnosed for a couple years after onset of symptoms who became anemic.
I have a hard time imagining anyone not hitting the point of going to the ER and figuring it out long before it became truly deadly, but I guess you could be extra vulnerable to infection at that point, and that could become life threatening
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u/Yashema 20d ago
I've had a gluten intolerance with symptoms first showing up 5 years ago and I went to my PCP and then he recommended me to an immunologist after symptoms started appearing. The immunologist wanted to give me an MRI for hip pain after an extremely painful X-ray (cause I had to position my hip at the worst angle) found nothing.Ā
I walked out of the office, got one final egg bagel, then decided to cut gluten out of my diet. 2 weeks later most symptoms were gone, after 80 days since my first symptom. Fortunately, I can handle a small amount but theĀ ignorance on digestive issues is astounding.Ā
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u/turkeygiant 20d ago
I think the "gluten intolerance" thing is kinda a joke though, there is basically no evidence outside of celiac and similar disorders of general gluten intolerance being a thing. Its pretty safe to assume that the majority of people who suddenly feel better after cutting out gluten are either undiagnosed celiac sufferers or more likely just feeling better because gluten containing foods also tend to have a lot of carbs, sugar, salt, and fats, and the gluten-free alternatives tend to trend towards more generally healthy ingredient lists. That's not to say there aren't upsides to the fad like there being way more gluten free options for actual celiac sufferers now, but there are a lot of people out there making a fuss at dinner parties and restaurants that really just need to chill and recognize that a bit of gluten isn't going to be a problem once in a while.
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u/AlexandersWonder 20d ago
Itās not unheard of for celiac to coincide with anaphylactic allergy to wheat, but thatās obviously an allergy and not celiac disease
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u/Jayrab_The_Arab_ 20d ago
If left untreated for a LONG timeā¦kinda like any thing.
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u/OliChubBear 20d ago
Celiac disease is not life threatening. Yes, you can develop other conditions or cause damage to your body if you're undiagnosed or continue to eat gluten, but to say is life threatening is too much. Even the risk of cancer is only slightly elevated if you're undiagnosed. This is from someone whose child has Celiac and is under the care of a gastroenterologist.
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u/wogmafia 19d ago
if you're undiagnosed or continue to eat gluten
That is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your reasoning given the 'treatment' for ceilic is just not eating gluten. The the increased risk for some cancers are more than doubled in the first year post diagnosis for people >40 years old (Lebwohl B, Green P, Emilsson L - Cancer Risk in 47,241 Individuals With Celiac Disease: A Nationwide Cohort Study Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2021; 20, e111-e131). Of course it tapers off after treatment, and is no where near as high in early diagnosed patients, its not ideal to downplay the condition because treatment is effective. People take medication or change lifestyles/diet to control/treat many conditions, and that doesn't undercut the seriousness of them.
Especially given the variable impact of symptoms in different people, it is very common for people to go undiagnosed for long periods of their life (in fact, it is common for the cancer detection to be the catalyst for the celiec diagnosis - hence the significant increased cancer risks in older patients following diagnosis in the study mentioned above).
On a side note, props for the making the effort getting early diagnosis and I am very glad for you and your child. As someone who took 50 years to realise you aren't meant to feel sick all the time, I am happy it is being picked up early in children.
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u/AlexandersWonder 20d ago
If youāre symptomatic it could definitely ruin your day. Kids arenāt always careful and at lunch time thereās a lot of exchanging of things happening so maybe that is the rationale? Thereās also pizza parties and birthday treats and such. Maybe the kid has had trouble in the past from this kind of stuff and the service dog is there to remind her what she canāt have?
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u/HeartOSass 20d ago
I have a friend that is allergic too gluten. She did say that she can eat foods that have gluten but if she does, do not stand in front of the bathroom.
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u/Hover4effect 19d ago
I met a person that had a gluten detecting dog and trained them. She had really bad gluten reactions, to the point where she would be bed ridden. She couldn't eat at restaurants, other people's houses, at work. Only certified GF foods made at home or dedicated GF restaurants. It is very limiting when our entire society is based around food.
Now she can eat basically anywhere and just has the dog check food first.
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u/ChickenAndTelephone 20d ago
I have three cousins and a good friend that have celiac.Ā They don't die if they eat wheat, they get an upset stomach.Ā They also have to eat whatever it is, they don't feel bad from smelling it.Ā I think this y just pack a lunch for the kid , not send a dog to smell what the lunch lady is dishing out in case she's lying.
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u/ExactSuggestion3428 20d ago
Some people are more asymptomatic, but that does not mean damage is not done. As with any chronic condition, some people are better educated about management than others and some people choose to live less responsibly. There are plenty of diabetics who go blind or have limb amputations because they choose to be more relaxed about blood sugar management, or beecause they lack the resources to manage their condition properly. The same goes with celiac.
People with celiac need to stay below 10 mg/day to avoid chronic intestinal damage. Someone with chronic intestinal damage is likely to have nutritional deficiencies (e.g. anemia, osteoporosis), and could end up in the hospital due to malnutrition. There are other downstream consequences like GI cancer.
I personally get debilitating joint pain that prevents me from doing activities of daily living when I get glutened, even if it's just cross contact (traces). This is not atypical.
Consider: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/celiac-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20352220
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u/alinroc 20d ago
They don't die if they eat wheat, they get an upset stomach.
Different people have different degrees of apparent symptoms, though there is always damage done to the small intestine. Some get a mild stomach ache and that's it. Others will be crapping their brains out for 8 hours within 30 minutes of ingestion. Then there's three days of fatigue, headaches and brain fog, and not feeling like yourself for over a week.
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u/Throwaway74829947 20d ago
Yeah, long-term eating gluten with Celiac disease can cause cancer and malnutrition, but occasionally accidentally eating gluten will just make you feel really sick.
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u/AnnonymousPenguin_ 20d ago
I was thinking the same thing. Like how does that make you need an alert dog?
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u/-Altephor- 20d ago
It's not. She has diabetes, the dog alerts when it smells ketones.
Post is bullshit.
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u/Spinal_Soup 20d ago
Itās a lab, it just eats the bread before the little girl is able to. You donāt even need to train them, they just come that way.
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u/the_naysayer 19d ago
Gluten detection is a function dogs can perform, and it is not uncommon for those of wealth and means to get their child with celiac disease a gluten sniffing dog to keep them from ingesting it unknowingly. The dog gets to sniff the food and give a signal.
It's very uncommon, but it does exist.
My daughter has celiac disease and we would have done this if it was something we could have afforded.
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u/DealFeeling523 20d ago
man the internet is dead. every post is just misinformation that gets corrected in comments to drive engagement.
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u/Charming-Report1669 20d ago edited 20d ago
Please explain how a person with a food allergy needs a service animal.Ā
EDIT:Ā This post is bullshit, anyway. Just look her up for yourself. She's a diabetic and the dog is trained to detect changes in blood sugar.
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u/HeyVitK 20d ago edited 20d ago
Except diabetes alert dogs tend to be 15-30 minutes faster in alerting to blood sugar changes than CGMs, and diabetic service dog patients use both the dog and CGM to cross-reference each other and a finger prick test.
Edit: Fixed a typo.
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u/poopholes3 20d ago
I could maybe see someone with a peanut allergy, as it can close your windpipe and kill you in seconds. But as a fellow celiac, I agree its silly. If I accidentally eat gluten, its unpleasant but not life threatening. I too was surprised to hear of a service dog for celiac, first for me and I have been celiac for 25 years.
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u/Tall_Block_4589 20d ago
Canine Companion With A Cause
Dawn also has a specific type of celiac known as refractory celiac disease. This rare and terrible form of the disease has persistent malabsorptive symptoms that do not respond to a gluten-free diet. When first diagnosed, Dawn was given three years to live by her medical team. With a background in training scent detection dogs for her work in K-9 Search and Rescue, Dawn decided to try to train her own scent service dog to detect gluten. Now three and a half years later, Dawnās doctors say she is the healthiest person with celiac that they know.
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u/poopholes3 20d ago
So what in addition to avoiding gluten does she have to do?
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u/Tall_Block_4589 20d ago
That's it from the article, service dog can check a room, when she's eating at a restaurant, check products that might be contaminated and mislabelled. Dogs not even allowed gluten, in case it licks her.
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u/poopholes3 20d ago
Ok, I eat-crow. There are other, more serious forms of celiac disease, that are different than the more common version that I have. TIL. You think after having a disease for 25+ years you would know something like this, interesting.
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u/look_who_it_isnt 19d ago
Refractory. Right there's the problem with the majority of the comments on this post. There is no "fatal" version of Celiac Disease. There's Refractory Celiac Disease, which is much worse and harder to treat and live with than regular Celiac Disease. That's why it has a different name.
If someone tells me their Refractory Celiac Disease can be life-threatening, I'm not gonna argue with them. But folks saying Celiac Disease is life-threatening? Nope. It's not.
Using the right terminology is important in health matters.
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u/AmericanCitizenry 20d ago
My celiac is life threatening.
I still don't see a need for a service dog
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u/Weird_Vegetable_4441 20d ago
Okay, so it sounds like thereās levels to this. Yours is life threatening. Someone else here says itās not. Maybe everyone with celiac has different needs?
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u/3fxz_ 20d ago
Traces of gluten may exist in many products like food, medication, and personal care products. Things may not be labeled properly or may have been contaminated along the way. Itās important for somebody with a deadly case of celiac disease to be able to detect gluten.
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u/Direct_Leather2901 20d ago
Coming from a person who has celiac even a lil cross-contamination with wheat can ruin my week itās not as serve with everyone but in the few cases weāre it is severe having the extra protection can be beneficial.Ā
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u/poopholes3 20d ago
I am also celaic and agree, a little bit of wheat can ruin my week. But I am not going to start taking a service dog to work, cmon lol
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u/ebrum2010 20d ago
I'm genuinely curious what the dog actually does though. Is it like a medieval food taster that detects gluten by tasting the food before you eat it or does it only do something after you have a reaction?
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u/-Altephor- 20d ago
And how exactly would a fucking dog help you with that?
This post is bullshit, the girl has diabetes and her dog is trained to alert when it smells ketones.
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u/loosed-moose 20d ago
Not just wheat!!! There are several sources of gluten proteins such as wheat, rye, barley, and farro (this is not the whole list but covers 90 percent ish), not to mention ingredients derived from and coming into contact with the above list.
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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy 20d ago
You mean to tell me the account with random number name and hidden post history that made a post with stupid title wording lied to me!
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u/loosed-moose 20d ago
I think a peanut allergy dog could be helpful, but I'm not sure if that is a thing. Celiac Disease is not an allergy but a serious genetic autoimmune condition that can have grave consequences if not following a very strict GF diet (strict meaning avoiding the myriad cross-contact sources in kitchen food prep and industrial processing)
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u/twirlerina024 20d ago
Why is it wearing a prong collar? IMO, I wouldn't count a dog as well trained if they're still relying on tools like this. Also wouldn't trust a typical 8yo kid to use the collar properly, and I'd want a hard look at the training methods used if the school/trainer is still using such an outdated tool.
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u/DoingBestWeCan 20d ago
THANK YOU. AFAIK, "celiac alert dogs" are still in the fad stage. A full service dog should not be wearing a prong collar. No dog should be wearing one all day, every day.
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u/TheSecondTraitor 20d ago
As someone with cynophobia I'd freak out if my classmate brought a dog to school.
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u/ShinyJangles 20d ago
Have you considered a therapy raven? It can squawk when it sees a dog from a distance, providing you with valid medical protection
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u/JellyfishPlus2182 19d ago
As someone with life threatening ornithophobia, Iām going to have to object to someone using a therapy raven at schoolĀ
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u/Grossredditgross 20d ago
Why are people being fucking weird about a little girl needing a service animal? Some people are deathly allergic to things, even just inhaling the particles. I worked at a nut free school because of that, people still sent nuts to school with their kids. I didnāt have any kids with nut allergies in classroom, but if I did having that service dog would come in handy.
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u/poopholes3 20d ago
I love all the non-celaics here trying to tell us with celaic about our own disease š
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u/Direct_Leather2901 20d ago
? With all the nonsense your spouting you probably donāt even know what the disease isĀ
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u/poopholes3 20d ago
Lol, I have been celiac for 25+ years, youngin'. But I do agree that I learned of a newer version today. The more you know!
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u/AnnonymousPenguin_ 20d ago
How does celiac disease make you need an alert dog? I thought it was mainly a digestive issue.
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u/alinroc 20d ago
It's an autoimmune condition of the digestive system which is triggered by consuming gluten in concentrations as low as 20ppm (some respond to even less). Cross-contamination of food is a big problem in kitchens that mix both glutinous and gluten-free foods - flour in the air, wayward crumbs, not changing gloves between handling gluten and gluten-free dishes can all render those gluten-free dishes very dangerous to someone with Celiac Disease.
When my spouse was diagnosed, we had to replace all the plastic food storage containers, any ceramic cookware that was scratched, and many other items in our kitchen before they started to feel better. And it wasn't until we moved into a new house that had never had gluten in the kitchen that they really started to feel healthy again. The kitchen itself was contaminated.
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u/loosed-moose 20d ago
It's not "of the digestive system" - autoimmune diseases affect much more than the organs that trigger them. Sorry to overcorrect but I'm a CD patient myself and am trying to help!
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u/wtsnack 20d ago
https://usserviceanimalregistrar.org/service-dog-for-celiac-disease/
Dogs can be trained to detect gluten so if something gets cross contaminated the kid wonāt get sick
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u/ElaMeadows 20d ago
That's amazing! My service dog is on the birthday announcements at the schools I work at <3
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u/Calm_City_6229 20d ago edited 20d ago
Blind people need service dogs, not people allergic to gluten or peanuts etc! Be responsible for yourself and know what you can eat. Itās pretty simple..
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u/Radzila 20d ago
Apparently she's diabetic anyway so this post isn't accurateĀ
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u/loosed-moose 20d ago
That makes a lot more sense lol. Dogs can't detect the presence of a small amount of proteins. Maybe they can smell rye bread, but can they smell farro? Diabetic service dog for alerting adults sounds right.
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u/Radzila 19d ago
Actually dogs have one of the best noses on the planet (300 million scent receptors) but gluten probably isn't something they can smell since it doesn't actually have a smell. Farro, yes they can smell but that's an ancient grain that not everyone uses.Ā
Diabetic service dogs can smell the VOCs(Volatile Organic Compounds) that a body releases when blood sugar shifts too high or too low.Ā
They can also be trained to smell cancer! Dogs are awesomeĀ
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u/loosed-moose 19d ago
Definitely things we can all agree on! Dogs are awesome, and gluten proteins are odorless.
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u/iamthedayman21 20d ago
There are service dogs for all sorts of things outside of blindness.
I wish I could have the unearned confidence of people like you. Just spouting off shit with no fact checking.
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u/ComedianHoliday4555 20d ago
i think every cass in america should have a general trained service dog. more dogs should be trained and kids should pet it.
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u/Person899887 20d ago
Celiac can go well beyond a regular allergy. The symptoms can be very intense and gluten can pop up in a lot of unexpected spots.
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u/shortageinthecity 20d ago
Sheās a child who goes to school. This dog can tell her if her food is safe for her when she may not otherwise know. Your take is shitty.
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u/loosed-moose 20d ago
Nah the dog can't actually detect the tiny level of gluten that could harm someone with Celiac. Feel free to look at my recent comment that dives into this as someone with diagnosed Celiac in the USĀ
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u/Sarganto 20d ago
How do you feel about outing yourself as someone who doesnāt know a lot of things, but feels confident about sharing their incorrect knowledge with the world?
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u/loosed-moose 20d ago
Celiac Disease is not an allergy to gluten. Don't worry, your ignorance is not your fault, and it's more common than you might think. Celiac Disease is an autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to attack its own stomach and intestine lining when a very very very small amount of proteins called gluten are found. In one-off occurrences, these flare-ups can cause myriad symptoms (every Celiac patient is different) for up to two weeks per exposure (not stacking lol). Symptoms can range from painful to demonic.Ā
In the US, where I'm based, Celiac is classified as a disability and is covered by the ADA. I used to scoff at that but after several years prior to diagnosis up to this day, I can tell you with complete honesty that having Celiac in the US is hell. There is cheap wheat flour everywhere due to decades of federal wheat farming subsidies. People like you don't take it seriously because GF is a fad.Ā
I hope you don't take this as a personal attack, because it's not. I used to make light of CD too, ten years ago. It's fucking brutal. I had to grieve my old life, and that process is still ongoing. Now, I try to educate folks who I'm sure are well-meaning like myself those long years ago, because it's still somehow a mystery in my country. All I hope you take from this is that Celiac is closer in severity to an extreme peanut allergy (not the anaphylaxis, but the sensitivity) than it is to the typical day of GI discomfort that I'm sure you're thinking of. Honestly, if you are still reading, I appreciate you already.Ā
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u/Fortestingporpoises 20d ago
She could have just not eaten the bread but this is a fun workaround.
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u/ExactSuggestion3428 20d ago
No, that is not how celiac works.
See my other comment:
People with celiac disease need to avoid mg amounts, just like people with food allergies. If a person with celiac consumes more than 10 mg of gluten/day, they risk damage to their intestines which has a variety of consequences from nutritional issues (severe anemia, osteoporosis, failure to thrive) to a long-term risk of GI cancer. You might consider the story of Casey Cromwell, who ended up in hospital as a young woman due to celiac related complications. This isn't isolated, it's just someone who decided to post about it.
Some people will get acute symptoms in the single digit mg range.
The ED05 for a peanut allergy is 2 mg. This means that about 5% of the most allergic people will have some symptoms (e.g. itchy mouth, but not necessarily 911 anaphylaxis) at 2 mg.
While the diseases may be different, both groups have a similar need to avoid small amounts of their problem protein. "Don't eat bread" is not enough for someone with celiac, they need to be thinking about crumbs. Some people with celiac are not very diligent about this, but as with any medical condition with a lifestyle component, some people aren't. They suffer consequences that people don't see or that are down the road.
Some resources if you are genuinely interested in being educated, and not juts a reddit edge lord:
- Cross contact: https://www.beyondceliac.org/gluten-free-diet/cross-contact/
- Need to avoid <10 mg/day: https://nationalceliac.org/celiac-disease-questions/understanding-gluten-levels/
- WHO Allergen reference doses (lists ED05s for common food allergens): https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/B09031
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u/Flaky_Salad_2502 20d ago
That is excellent! But Iām jealous. I was a substitute teacher in seven school districts over a seventeen year career and never got into a yearbook.
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u/BeigePhilip 20d ago
Iām just looking at a cute picture of a kid and a dog and stumbled into the internet disability wars wtf
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u/NoBonus6969 20d ago
I was like wtf kind of dog name is Buckminster but then I saw the girls name lol
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u/Pleasant-Future5818 20d ago
This feels like rage bait. A dog for celiac would be an insane accommodation given how distracting it would be - because the easiest accommodation for celiac is to just pack all food.
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u/Sad-Junket-837 20d ago
That is absolutely precious timeless. I just love it. It reminds me of a normal Rockwell paintingšš©µ
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u/External-Ad4873 20d ago
I was like Memphis Buckminster! what a hillarious dog name ā¦. Then realised itās the kidsā surname š
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u/1290_money 20d ago
Omg I can't even imagine how popular that dog must have been at school šš
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u/upstatedreaming3816 20d ago
This girl has to be 20 now, thatās how long this picture has been going around. The disease she has changes all the time, too.
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u/DefiantDonut7 20d ago
Friendly reminder, donāt post pictures of minors with their full name please.
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u/Splintrax 19d ago
As a coeliac myself, I've never heard of a gluten alert dog and it mostly sounds like bullshit.
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u/theeblackdahlia 19d ago
What the heck!! I used to be her sub teacher a couple years ago at the high school!
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u/FixFun1959 19d ago
I wish I had one of my old yearbooks.
A girl a class above me was blind and one year she did her photo facing to the side as a joke. Fucking hilarious.
She had a dog but never brought it to school, only field trips.
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u/djcurbit 19d ago
I came to the comments looking for a Fullmetal Alchemist reference and left bitterly disappointed.
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u/cocineroylibro 19d ago
I work at a K-8 school. Our school psychologist has a therapy dog. When we got staff pictures, they took a photo of the dog. It's the picture they put on her ID!
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u/look_who_it_isnt 18d ago
My brain initially read the school psychologist was a therapy dog, and I gotta say, I didn't for a second question the validity of the claim nor the wisdom of the choice.
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u/DontWalkOutOnTheDuke 19d ago
For anyone interested: there are, in fact, gluten-detecting dogs that some people with celiac or gluten allergy can pay a lot of money to get. Their efficacy is debated, but it is a thing.
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