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You wouldn’t stand idly by while your child struggles with constipation and diarrhea, would you? Surely not. So you’ll want to know the symptoms and effects of wheat gluten intolerance in your child’s day to day life and seek a doctor’s help in defining it.

There are distinct ways to form a wheat gluten intolerance diagnosis. Included in these methods are an intestinal wall biopsy, elimination of gluten from the diet and a blood test. Only one reliable method, a strict gluten-free diet, will offer a clear answer for all gluten intolerance problems. While your son or daughter might receive a negative test result for the two clinical tests for celiac disease, they don’t necessarily rule out all potential of a gluten intolerance.

After all tests results show negative, you should learn how to eliminate gluten from your lives for a set period of time to truly understand the long term effects of gluten in his or her life.

After you’ve discovered that a child needs to avoid gluten, it is important to start creating a gluten-free pantry and developing a whole new world of ingredients. Grocery stores and manufacturers – particularly natural and gourmet chains like Whole Foods – make make this less difficult than it it was some years ago.

Only 15 years ago both the medical community and the natural health community were lacking with regards to an understanding of gluten intolerance’s reach on our population. Today we acknowledge that nearly 1 percent of the population endure some form of intolerance to gluten. We also have a better understanding of the seriousness of celiac disease long-term when left untreated.

Luckily increased awareness has increased our doctors’ ability to properly diagnose the condition and has greatly improved the volume and choice of foods we have available even in our mainstream grocery stores.

You can also find a tremendous amount of support through various online forums as well as blogs. If your son or daughter struggled with celiac disease 10 years ago, you would’ve felt considerably more isolated and alone.

I know how distressing it is to watch your children struggle with a physical condition. In addition to their problems the uncertainty of that suffering makes it all the more difficult to tolerate. So if your child’s struggles appear to be associated with trouble digesting what he or she is eating, I urge you to discuss the matter with your physician and discuss the chance of gluten intolerance.

Although it will take time to adapt to a gluten-free way of life, you and your child will be able to make the change to heal any damage done by wheat gluten intolerance. After you determine what companies and products to trust and those to eliminate, you will adapt to a fresh life of greater hope and health.

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