Packing a Gluten-free Lunch for School
Getting a diagnosis of Celiac Disease or gluten intolerance for your child is tough. We, as parents, scramble to change our child’s diet immediately and that is even tougher, depending on the age of the child. Of course the change starts at home, but the place where our children spend the most time aside from [...]
Student with Celiac Pushes for Meal Plan Exemption
Thanks to a heads up from one of our readers, I was made aware of the story of Stacy Marlow, a student with Celiac Disease who attends the Kennesaw State University. Marlow recently shared the story with the KSU Sentinel (the school newspaper) of her problems getting an exemption from the University’s mandatory meal plan [...]
Strategies for Children Staying Gluten Free at School
Sending a child with Celiac Disease to school can often be a very stressful thing because your control over what the child is exposed to ends when they enter their school. If you are looking for tips, a large number of them were recently published over at Article Base, courtesy of My Gluten Free Child. [...]
Schools Struggle to Adapt to Growing Food Allergy Diagnosises
A New York TV station recently featured a brief story about the struggles schools around the United States are having dealing with food allergies. Though the primary example used is a peanut allergy, students with Celiac Disease also apply. Today, there are nearly a dozen students in the district with food allergies, and the staff [...]
Elon University Goes Gluten Free to Accomodate Students
Due to the growing number of students needing to follow a gluten free diet, the Elon University school newspaper recently published a story about the University attempting to be more accomodating to people with Celiac Disease. This is definitely progress and hopefully we’ll see more universities doing the same thing. Here is an excerpt from [...]
How To Be Gluten Free at School
It’s the middle of August and children around the country are getting ready to go back to school. In the case of of year round education they already are in school. When you get your kids ready for school you’ll make sure they have the supplies they need from the list, new clothes and you [...]
im taeler im 17 and i have celiac disease, i've know for about a year, and am researching more about ...
I found Heartland pasta at my local WalMart and bought the fusilli. I cooked it up and combined it ...
Dr. Osborne,
Thank you for sharing that. That makes a lot of sense and explains why I can tolerate it ...
Thanks Shirley! If I go to the event, I hope to enter something with pumpkin it it...just haven't worked out ...
