For Little Miss came back negative on all fronts. She had been eating gluten continuously for the past few months so I am confident that the test was accurate at this point. I’ve read that Celiac disease can be triggered later in-life and she may develop more profound gluten-intolerance symptoms as she grows older. Additionally, our pediatrician suggested she could simply have a gluten-intolerance without having Celiac disease and it could be wise for us to pare back the amount of wheat she eats each day. Since that is the trend in our family, I think we are already headed in the low-gluten diet direction.

I believe that simply cutting down the number of processed foods we consume will help eliminate wheat from our diet. Did you know that artificial color, hydrolyzed protein, glucose syrup, natural flavors, can contain wheat?  For a more comprehensive look at foods that contain wheat (when the ingredient list on the package doesn’t say “wheat”) take a look at this “Unsafe Gluten-Free Food List” from Celiac.com.

For now, I don’t have to worry about my little girl getting her hands on a birthday-at-school cupcake. Well, not for the wheat part, but for the sugar…well that is another story.