January 28th, 2009 by admin
Having written about Jamie’s gluten free day last Wednesday, I did get to thinking about the impacthis celiac disease, and gluten free diet has on me!. So here is a day in the life of my celiac child from the point of view of the one who feeds him.
Early morning: I’m packing up the lunch [...]
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January 25th, 2009 by admin
I mentioned the other day that Jamie keeps getting tummy-aches, despite the fact that I’m sure he is not having any gluten. I kept a food diary for two weeks and send it to the Paediatric Dietician at the hospital.
She rang back the other day and said that she couldn’t see any reason for the [...]
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January 22nd, 2009 by admin
“Does a gluten free diet make life difficult for Jamie?”
Someone asked me that the other day, and although I said “Not really” at the time, it did make me stop and think. We have got so used to living gluten free that we don’t talk about it much anymore. But there are little challenges Jamie (and [...]
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January 19th, 2009 by admin
In our list of easy gluten free recipes, this one has to come near the top. Besides being Jamie’s favourite tea - the one he always asks for when given a choice - it is made of storecupboard ingredients, and only takes about fifteen minutes to make! (Great for camping too!)
Ingredients (this much feeds the two [...]
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January 15th, 2009 by admin
Jamie is getting tummyaches again. I’m sure he is not getting any gluten (and if he is occasionally getting cross contaminated, it can’t be this regularly). His last blood tests showed he wasn’t getting regular gluten.
So why he tummyaches? They are short but very sharp, and he’s getting them three or four times a week. [...]
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January 8th, 2009 by admin
Coeliac UK (don’t ask me why we have to add another letter to ‘celiac’ over here!!) held its first research conference in London on December 3rd for scientists and researchers to network and report back on research they are doing at the moment.
The most exciting development, I thought, was the research being done to find [...]
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January 4th, 2009 by admin
This is a favourite gluten free lunchbox for my kids - and one which is envied by the friends they sit with!
Basically, all you need is a skewer (we tend to use the wooden picnic ones and I usually cut off the sharp ends when I’ve finished) or for younger children a good quality drinking [...]
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January 1st, 2009 by admin
A Gluten Free New Year!
New Year! A time for resolutions and targets. Being an incredibly goal oriented person, I love this time
of year and invarably set myself way too many goals for the year ahead. As it will be our first full year of
a gluten free diet I have three specific gluten free goals:
I am [...]
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