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My 4 yo son keeps packs of gluten-free rice crispy treats at school for emergency treats. He also loves the fruity or cocoa pebbles bars, which are similar.

We only have our 4 yo who is gluten-free. My other child is 6 and she usually eats gluten-free but not always. However, we also feed the kids separate from the grown-ups most of the time, so it is easier to keep gluten-free and non-gluten-free things separate. If we all eat together, we usually make everything gluten free (tacos, roasts, chicken and veggies...

My kids are both somewhat picky - here are some random ideas. We make homemade chicken nuggets and fish sticks using gluten-free breadcrumbs that they like, especially with a little ketchup. Have you tried the Quinoa pasta - its my favorite kind. Does he like french fries, hash browns, latkes, sweet potato fries? My kids like plain thin-sliced chicken...

My 4 yo has Celiac and my 6 yo does not. The kids eat mostly gluten-free at home, since we cook them the same dinner. My 6 yo eats other stuff at school and sometimes they will have different things. We have a book called Gluten Free for Emily that is helpful in that it shows that sometimes you just can't eat what the other kids have. It is hard, although...

My 4 yo has been gluten-free for a year and is also very small (3%) for weight. He's gotten a bit taller since going gluten-free, but he's still very short. It really bothers him and he gets frustrated about it. Our doctor encouraged us to give him Ensure or Pediasure to make sure he is getting enough calories. He's 4 1/2 now, and does seem to have gained...

If you're close to Montgomery County, we see Benjamin Enav who is with Lynn Duffy's pediatric GI group. We go their VA office. He sees quite a number of Celiac kids. He did our son's scope and was very nice. We've also met with their nutritionist.

Yeah, its hard. My 4 yo keeps asking when he can go back on his wheat diet, and its been over a year now. Its just so hard sometimes.

We provide my child's preschool with homemade playdough now. We also are willing to substitute as much as possible for any pasta and cereal they use in art projects. We made up a sheet for all the teachers similar to the above list to let them know what is expected like washing everyone's hands after meals, not sharing food, no playdough, etc. I think...

You could also do brownies. I haven't tried these yet, but here is a Whole Foods recipe for brownies that has no flour in them - they use black beans instead. Open Original Shared Link If you wanted, you could add dairy free orange sherbert for brownie sundaes. Would look especially good for an October birthday. My non-Celiac DD used to not like...

My son had just turned 3 when he was diagnosed. He had been very tired all the time prior to that, and dropped his nap altogether within 6 weeks after going gluten-free. He seemed to have lots more energy in general - less reliance on the stroller and more interest in walking/scooting. Also he started growing a bit within a couple months - went from 1...

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...

There's Pete's Apizza, Austin Grill, Hello Cupcake, Jaleo and Zaytinya. All either have gluten-free options or understanding staff.

My son was also asymptomatic, except that he didn't grow or eat much, and slept a lot prior to diagnosis at age 3. We don't know if he gets gluten now or not - he's never gotten sick as far as I can tell. He occassionally asks when he can stop being on a gluten free diet.

My child attends a private school and they bought the playdoh for the class, or made it themselves, or sent out gluten-free playdough recipes and asked parents to make it per that recipe. Ours doesn't supply meals. We have an annual meeting with the teachers right before school to go over how to work with our child and his lunch/snacks. Basically, they always...

I think the likely answer is yes. I don't think the Celiac Panel gives many false positives. However, they generally do an endoscope as additional support of the blood test. Our blood test (just the IGA TTG) was positive and the endoscope was iffy and they said that it therefore supported the blood test and that my son (also 3) had Celiac. Go...