How do you make a barbeque into a gluten free barbeque? This was one of the first of the many “gluten free challenges” I faced with my celiac child. As Jamie was diagnosed with celiac disease at the start of the summer, we were invited to quite a few barbeques over the following few months [...] Read more »
Celiac Disease Diagnosis III
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 [...] Read more »
Celiac Disease Diagnosis II
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 [...] Read more »
