Gfcf Vitamins?

[acousticmom]

I'm doing the gluten-free diet with my son, who was recently diagnosed with celiac disease. My blood test was negative for celiac disease but I want to find out if gluten intolerance might be an issue. I'm very allergic to milk, so I'm looking for a multivitamin that doesn't contain gluten or lactose (casein).

I'd prefer to find something mainstream, but I know there are a few brands available online if mainstream doesn't work out.

Vitamin labels each have about 100 ingredients in a language I don't speak--so I wonder if gluten might be hiding under non-obvious names. Any suggestions?

Carol

[jenvan]

Hmm, not sure about mainstream, but I take Freeda Vitamins: Open Original Shared Link They are all 100% gluten, lactose free and free of several other things as well. Not sure about casein, I'm guessing at least most of them are, but you can call and check. I take the quintabs--been very happy with them, and not hard to swallow.

Have you ever seen these safe and forbidden ingredient lists? They can help you read labels: https://www.celiac.com/st_main.html?p_catid=12 As for vitamins, I always call on them--some companies leave things like gluten off their label...and any starches, colorings or flavorings need to be checked.

[acousticmom]

Thanks, Jen. I'm going to order some from Freeda. Too many unknowns with the mainstream labels. And the safe/forbidden lists were the first resource I found and some of the most helpful--what a great resource to have starting out! I just wasn't sure if they included medicine-related ingredients or not.

Carol