At What Age Would You Allow Your Child To Touch Gluten?

[Beth03456]

I hear about moms with Celiac who feed their families non-gluten-free food. Right now, I don't allow my son to touch regular pasta, bread, play-doh, etc. I admonish my older child to not touch her brother while eating, to wash her hands, etc. I'm just wondering what that magic age is where you feel like a Celiac child/teenager is responsible enough to wash their hands and be safe around it. Right now I don't think my little one will ever be allowed to touch a piece of non-gluten-free food. Not that he is good about washing his hands now - which might explain my fear of him getting glutened all the time of course.

[buffettbride]

I hear about moms with Celiac who feed their families non-gluten-free food. Right now, I don't allow my son to touch regular pasta, bread, play-doh, etc. I admonish my older child to not touch her brother while eating, to wash her hands, etc. I'm just wondering what that magic age is where you feel like a Celiac child/teenager is responsible enough to wash their hands and be safe around it. Right now I don't think my little one will ever be allowed to touch a piece of non-gluten-free food. Not that he is good about washing his hands now - which might explain my fear of him getting glutened all the time of course.

My daughter won't touch gluten food at all. If it is used for a project in class (she's in 8th grade so that is rare now) she will use gloves. Obviously some surfaces she contacts may have gluten, like the lunch room, but she is a prolific hand-washer. The science teacher last year actually changed one of their projects last year from "flour babies" to "sugar babies" because my daughter wasn't going to tote around a bag of flour for a week.