Momof3boys

I need some help. My 5 year old son was diagnosed with Celiac's at 4 and has been gluten-free for over a year now. His blood levels have been normal for the past 2 times (in November 2007 and 6 months before that). So we are doing well with the diet. My concern is that he has been diagnosed with Severe Sensory Integration problems and is in OT. He is...

I am a speech therapist in an elementary school. But I am also a mother of a 5 year old with OT and Celiac's. So at his IEP I am having a nutritionist, nurse and all of the other participants as well. I would contact the speech therapist or diagnostician who did the initial testing and as part of the IEP I would write in that your child can not have gluten...

I would just say to stick with it. My son started having diarrhea 6 times a day when he was 2. We finally got referred to a bad GI doctor and she said he was too big of a kid to have celiac's disease so she didn't test him (I thought she had). Welll a year later he was 3 and still not potty trained and having a combo of diarrhea and contstipation. So...

An interesting thing has occured in the NM group. My son was born with a club foot and my friend's son with Celiac's disease was born with a cleft lip. Are there any other people out there with kids with Celiac's disease and a birth defect as well?

I am a newbie and trying to still figure it all out. Are we supposed to have MSG? Or does it depend on how sensitive you are? TIA!