Is a gluten-free Diet Safe for Non Celiacs??

[dovahgolzseyol]

Hello - I have celiac disease and I'm extremely sensitive to cross contamination. Therefore, or is best and safest for me to have the whole house gluten free. 

As of right now, that only includes myself, my husband, and pets. However, we plan on trying to have our first child in the next few years. 

My question is - is it going to be okay/safe/healthy for my child to eat gluten free? Even with all the preventative measures we take, I feel like I'm constantly getting sick from cross contamination that we cannot pin point due to the ridiculous lack of proper labeling on truly celiac safe foods. I know it will be dangerous for me to have someone in the house eating gluten. 

And while I know there is a chance my child could have celiac disease as well, I worry about how my dietary restrictions due to this disease could affect a child that may not have any issues with gluten. 

 

[trents]

It should not be too difficult to compensate for the nutrition found in wheat products.

Almost 95 percent of the white flour in the United States is enriched with iron and four of the B vitamins: thiamin, niacin, riboflavin and folic acid. By contrast, fortified flour may contain folic acid in amounts that exceed those present in whole-wheat flour. Calcium, a nutrient that is not naturally present in wheat kernels or whole-wheat flour, is another nutrient that may be present in fortified flour. https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/fortified-flour-1719.html

A good gluten-free multivitamin together with a well-rounded diet should cover the bases. A lot of our junk food uses fortified/enriched wheat flour but is unhealthy in other ways, being laded with fat, sugar and carbs. Although I also realize children can be picky eaters. So, getting them to eat a well-rounded diet can sometimes be a challenge.

[Scott Adams]

I agree, there is nothing dangerous about a gluten-free diet, as long as you compensate for the fiber and nutrients that fortified wheat bread products contain. In the last decade there have been lots of scare articles in the press about the "dangers of a gluten-free diet," which actually read very much like what most of them are, which are likely positions supported by the wheat industry in the USA against the gluten-free diet trend, which as many as 25% of people now follow.