I am an american in Spain, my 7 year old son was just diagnosed with Celiac Disease last week. There is no known family history of the disease, so this came as a total shock to us! His main symptoms were poor appetite and slow growth, and we (and the doctors) always thought it was because my husband isn't very tall, his entire family is petite...! But the ped decided to send him for a blood test, and that's where it showed up. Mid December he had a biopsy, and that confirmed the Disease.
So, big changes ahead of us... My son is adjusting to not being able to eat many of the things he has always liked! I am learning how to cook new things...
The hardest part for now is finding breakfast foods for him... he doesn't like any gluten-free bread or cereal we have tried so far... Although he does like rice cakes, so far that's what he's eating along with yogurts...
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I am an american in Spain, my 7 year old son was just diagnosed with Celiac Disease last week. There is no known family history of the disease, so this came as a total shock to us! His main symptoms were poor appetite and slow growth, and we (and the doctors) always thought it was because my husband isn't very tall, his entire family is petite...! But the ped decided to send him for a blood test, and that's where it showed up. Mid December he had a biopsy, and that confirmed the Disease.
So, big changes ahead of us... My son is adjusting to not being able to eat many of the things he has always liked! I am learning how to cook new things...
The hardest part for now is finding breakfast foods for him... he doesn't like any gluten-free bread or cereal we have tried so far... Although he does like rice cakes, so far that's what he's eating along with yogurts...