My Mom Was Just Diagnosed With Cd...

[Nancy O.]

Hi - My Mom was just diagnosed with celiac disease. I have found many helpful sights on the internet pertaining to gluten-free foods and drugs, however, how about hair color, deodorant, and toothpaste?

This is a very confusing time for us. I am extremely worried about her lack of appetite which I think is caused by the gas and abdominal pains. To the best of our knowledge, she has been gluten-free for approximately 3 weeks. Her specialist seems to think that the diet is working.

I find your forum extremely informative and would appreciate your feedback. Thank you.

[celiac3270]

Welcome ...

Toothpaste....Crest, Colgate...most of them, really. Just avoid Sensodyne. Unless your mom gets bad rashes when gluten-containing products touch her skin (dh) she doesn't need to worry about deodorant.

Kraft clearly lists gluten so you don't need to call about natural or artificial flavors, modified food starch, starch, etc. Here are other companies that have the same labeling policy. With them you can just read the label for gluten...rather than calling:

Aunt Nelly's

Balance

Baskin Robbins

Ben & Jerry

Betty Crocker

Blue Bunny

Breyers

Campbells

Cascadian Farms

Celestial Seasonings

Country Crock

Edy's

General Mills

Good Humor

Green Giant

Haagen Daz

Hellman's

Hershey

Hormel

Hungry Jack

Jiffy

Knorr

Kozy Shack

Kraft

Libby's

Lipton

Martha White

McCormick

Nabisco

Nestle

Old El Paso

Ortega

Pillsbury

Popsicle

Post

Progresso

Russell Stover

Seneca Foods

Smucker

Stokely's

Sunny Delight

T Marzetti

Tyson

Unilever

Wishbone

Yoplait

Zatarain's

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