I had a question from India recently, about how to get started with a gluten free diet, so I searched for a coeliac society in India. Then Coeliac Daughter asked me to find out how easy it would be for her to eat gluten free in Malaysia and Singapore. I thought it might be helpful to start collating a list of national coeliac (celiac) societies, … [Read more...]
Runny nose: do you need to be gluten free?
I had an interesting email from a reader the other day, telling me about her route to diagnosis. She thought - and I agree - that it might help someone else get to a diagnosis, so here it is: "I have just been diagnosed with gluten and lactose intolerance after spending years of being told I had IBS. I had a strange way of finding … [Read more...]
Is there lecitem in your toffee apple?
Have you ever heard of lecitem? I hadn’t, until coeliac daughter told me about it recently. She’d bought a toffee apple (her first ever) as a reward for herself after an interview, but discovered it was not gluten free, since it contained lecitem. Not gluten free? Surely it’s just an apple, with sugar, syrup, water, and maybe a tiny bit … [Read more...]
