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 [...] Read more »
Jamie’s Ongoing Tummy-aches
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 [...] Read more »
An Average Gluten Free Day (for Jamie)
“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 [...] Read more »
Tummyaches Again!
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 [...] Read more »
Celiac Research UK
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 [...] Read more »
Gluten Free Goals for the New Year!
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 [...] Read more »
