AmyLeger on March 17th, 2009

How much is too much gluten? If you accidentally get a crumb of regular bread on your toast — will you throw it away or eat it anyway thinking it won’t hurt you? This post explores what may happen when a person with celiac disease, or their caretaker, isn’t cautious enough about cross contamination.

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AmyLeger on February 16th, 2009

Part two in a series of posts stemming from a survey about tweens and teens and their diagnoses. This one explores the impact a celiac diagnosis can have on the entire family. See what people said were the biggest impacts on their lives.

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AmyLeger on December 23rd, 2008

I remember being a new parent of a celiac child and then getting pregnant with baby #2. When she was born we were very careful about not introducing gluten for the first year…but was that necessary? New information is out on introducing food allergens and that led me to research the latest information on introducing gluten to our children’s diets.

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