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If your child has recently been diagnosed with celiac disease, it is likely your family is still adapting to the gluten-free lifestyle. It may seem overwhelming at first to a celiac patient to begin the gluten-free road to recovery, as there are many challenges to face in adjusting to a gluten-free diet. Parents often ask me for tips on how to ease their celiac children through this transition period, and I highly recommend to them helping their children connect to others in the celiac community through celiac support groups and celiac forums.
Tina Turbin
From our home to yours, Tina Turbin.
This is SO important for celiac children!
Thanks so much for this piece. Once my celiac daughter made a group of celiac friends such as herself in a local group, I noticed she became much happier in general and started getting into gluten-free baking with me. There has been a tremendous difference overall and I highly recommend parents get their own celiac kids active in a support group as well.
In my opinion this is one of the best ways to make your celiac children feel like “real” kids– a group of friends they can share good times with.
Thanks Tina I’ve been meaning to look into a support group for my son but haven’t gotten around to it. This blog here gives me a great reason to do that.
Wonderful, Tina. Thank you for sharing this.
Wow, you raise a good point here. For me as an adult, my support group has been tremendously helpful and I’ve made a couple of VERY good friends through it.
I’m 41 years old, and I’ve found my local group so awesomely supportive. I can imagine how vital this type of connection would be for young ones!