Child's School Desk

Strategy 1: Celiac disease is familiar to you now, but do not assume that your child's teacher know. Or what "gluten free" really means. Arrange a meeting with the child's teacher before the beginning of your term to explain what celiac disease and gluten-free diet is everything. Most teachers would welcome such a meeting and it is better to face to face rather than telephone or letter so you can answer all your questions and also so that you can Gage how the teacher seems to understand. Take something with you also printed for them to refer to. On my blog I offer a free brochure that explains the reasons celiac disease very easily through the implications of a gluten free diet. You can also talk to other people in the school as the school nurse or secretary (or whoever provides first aid if your child feel sick). When my son (eight years old at the time) was diagnosed with celiac disease, I met her class teacher and headteacher to discuss all the consequences, such as cooking, dough containing Gluten, birthday cakes that can be made and so on. It was a very useful meeting and they were 100% support since.

Strategy 2: Send in a processing box of gluten free snacks and sweets. Now you have the teacher on the side, they are likely to be keen to keep a small amount of gluten free cakes and treats their office just in case they are ever needed. vacuum packaged cakes are useful because if someone brings a birthday cake to share, and my son was small candies if someone brings candy holiday. Sometimes you can plan ahead but there are times when it is good to have a back plan and my son needs his box to process more than once in the last term!

Strategy 3: Educate the children of other course it depends on the age really, but we felt it was very important for our friends son to understand why he can not eat the same food as him, why he has a treatment area, and various meals, and why it sometimes takes time off for school visits to the hospital, etc. We have also sought to understand that there are many things he can eat a little too , then it becomes even invited to tea and parties.
Teachers can get ideas on how to do it. We made a short talk on "Show and Tell" day, what is celiac disease, what can and can not eat a gluten-free diet and how he feels about all this. He also, in some gluten free cupcakes for the class to try and it was a great success: they liked the cakes are all very friendly and now they understand more what it is.

Strategy 4: If your child has school meals, talking to staff catering Again, do not assume they understand what gluten-free diet really means (I tend to ask people what they mean by this before I think). They should be especially aware of the danger of contamination of utensils used for foods containing gluten. Carefully check their menus and discuss options with them. They have a duty of care towards your child and it is certainly worth the time to assist and work with them on this point.

Strategy 5: If your child is taking homemade lunches to school, making delicious. It takes a little effort, and I regret the days when a cheese sandwich spreads quickly finish the job, but it's worth. I'm always afraid that my son was watching the other kids "pack-ups and envy their sandwich bread and store bought cakes and biscuits, he could no more. So, my mission is to make her bag ups could be more exciting than theirs (see my blog for ideas on this!). I think it worked. He just gets upset that everyone wants sha.