A gluten free diet: easy gluten free recipes and the celiac child
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 [...]
A very, very happy New Year to you. May 2009 bring you love, laughter and peace.
God Bless you!
I just wanted to post today and wish all my American visitors a very happy Thanksgiving!
We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK. I know there are historical reasons why you started celebrating it in the States but whether these are still remembered or not I think it is a fantastic thing to have a whole [...]
Who says that the celiac child can’t do anything they put their mind to doing?
Before Jamie was diagnosed with celiac disease, when he spent his days lolling around the house with no energy whatsoever and permanent tummy ache, I did wonder if he would ever really be right again. Four months after the celiac disease [...]
What is xanthan gum and how does it help in gluten free baking? I had never heard of it before Jamie started his gluten free diet: now it is a must-have in my kitchen cupboards.
What does it do?
Xanthan gum is a completely natural vegetarian starch which is fantastic in gluten free baking because it gives [...]
Jamie saw the paediatrician for his four month review today. He had a blood test two weeks ago (which was much better than the first one because they did put the numbing cream on, although he still got very stressed.)
Today was to be weighed and measured, get the results of the blood test and generally [...]
When Jamie got his celiac disease diagnosis it was hardly a surprise, and most people close to us knew he was already on a gluten free diet already. But a few people’s reactions took us a bit by surprise!
People who thought we were being ‘over the top’ or ‘fussy’ parents. I guess if people don’t [...]
After the trauma of his biopsy, Jamie started straight away on a gluten free diet. His tummy aches had been so bad that it was a relief to stop feeding him food that was effectively poisoning him and we didn’t need to wait for an official celiac disease diagnosis. It was then that the implications [...]
The second stage of celiac disease diagnosis is a biopsy, where a small camera is put down the child’s throat into the small intenstines and a small sample taken from the wall of the intestine to see if there is evidence of damage caused by a reaction to gluten. With children they do this under [...]
Jamie’s Celiac disease diagnosis first came about Easter of this year. We hadn’t noticed any symptoms of celiac disease (not that we would have known what to look for - I don’t think we had ever heard of it!) but he suddenly seemed to be getting a lot of tummyaches. At first we didn’t take [...]
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