A Dummy’s Guide to Celiac Disease

I’ve mentioned it before, but it bears repeating, since now I’ve had emphatic confirmation from my gastroenterologist concerning my diagnosis: I have celiac disease. This is a brand spankin’ new way of life for me; I’m turning 30 in May, and in about a month or two, it will have been a year since my doctors discovered the litany of gastrointestinal issues I was harboring, including celiac disease. Luckily, I and the rest of my immediate family had a prep course in gluten-free practices while living with my gluten-intolerant sister-in-law, but now that it’s all official and everything, I wanted to put together a small reference guide for how to deal with this transition. There are a million of these kinds of blog posts out there on The Googles, and I’m not a definitive resource by any means, but while this personal blog is not about to become my gluten-free diet journal, I do want to compile my own resources and research in case it helps someone else out. Keeping in mind that we are learning new things all the time about pretty much everything, here’s the obligatory warning that this is current research as of February 2022.

Continue reading