Anyone gone through public school gluten free?

[Guest]

Has anyone going through public school gluten-free can you tell me about your experience How you felt?

[trents]

Welcome to the forum, @Gluten Free Jeff!

Are you asking this for yourself or for someone else say, as their parent?

[Guest]

In general I guess. I wasn't gluten free until I graduated highschool.

[trents]

Do you have officially diagnosed celiac disease? Or are you not a celiac but gluten sensitive?

[Scott Adams]

My daughter is 19 and is gluten-free, and for her high school seemed to be the hardest period to deal with. Peer pressure was intense and it sometimes led her to cheat on her diet. She is doing much better with it now.

[Guest]

Thanks for sharing Scott. Congratulations on having a gluten-free daughter as well makes me proud

[Scott Adams]

What kind of issues have you had going to public schools? Are you gluten-free as well?

[Bernade]

I have celiac disease and work in public school kitchen it is not gluten free but I must be careful there are several students that have issues but haven’t heard anything about it it is not taken seriously in my opinion and it is I would love to find other resources that can be available for us but I also don’t know what to do or where….

[trents]

@Bernade, you might find this helpful. Ultimately, it would be up to the parents of the students in question to begin dialog with school officials and get the ball rolling. But perhaps you could could pass this information onto the parents somehow:

 

[SoBannaz]

No I was 19 when I was diagnosed. And before then I brought my own lunch (usually a sandwich) which I would throw up an hour later. I wish we figured it out sooner. My folks thought I had an eating disorder and was purposely making myself sick.  With the way things are going wouldn’t be surprised if people think a kid with celiac disease is just attention seeking. Had a nurse try to get me to eat sourdough bread one time to cure my celiac disease but I’m going a bit off topic. If I had a child that inherited my celiac disease I would make all their lunches I worked in restaurants and cafeterias before they aren’t safe too much cross contamination 

[Scott Adams]

We made our kids' lunches throughout elementary school, and a good part of high school, but my daughter ended up straying from the diet in high school due to peer pressure. I think you brought up something interesting, and that is that some kids get mistakenly diagnosed with eating disorders, when they actually may have celiac disease or some other food intolerance or allergy. It's not just kids, adults are often dismissed by doctors and suspected of having mental or emotional issues, rather than celiac disease. We've seen it all on this forum--tons of people are prescribed antidepressants or antianxiety meds when they describe their many, seemingly unrelated symptoms to their doctors.