|
|
Article: Overcoming a food nightmare; DIET: Family 'work through maze' to provide daughter with gluten-free meals.
- Article from:
- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- May 12, 2009
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2009 Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: Diane Parkes
WHEN Chloe Howard is invited to a party, goes out for a meal or is simply offered a piece of birthday cake she has to think twice about what she is eating as the 11-yearold has coeliac disease.
An autoimmune disease, coeliac leads to the body's immune system attacking its own tissues when the sufferer eats gluten, a protein found in cereals.
Because gluten is an ingredient in plenty of foods ranging from bread to biscuits and sausages to sauces, it means that any bite Chloe takes could cause her problems.
Chloe, a pupil at Priory School in Edgbaston, was diagnosed at the age of five but she may have been born with ...