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May marks Coeliac Awareness month 🧡. Those close to me know that food has become a challenging aspect of life in my household this year. Four months on from my daughter’s diagnosis and a month on from mine, we are both navigating our new normal. The chances of having this condition increases from 1/100 to 1/10 if you have a first degree relative with coeliac disease. My daughter’s diagnosis was an incidental finding but without that we both may have gone undiagnosed for many more years. Many of my symptoms listed below were missed or attributed to other things. These included: - Anaemia - Vitamin D and B12 deficiency - Chronic fatigue - Joint pain and stiffness Living with coeliac disease means adhering to a strict gluten free diet for life. It’s not a lifestyle choice. - It is an autoimmune condition where the body attacks itself in response to gluten. It is not an allergy. - Left undiagnosed it can lead to malabsorption and deficiencies in vital nutrients as well as osteoporosis. - It’s estimated that that there are still some 500,000 people in the U.K. living with undiagnosed coeliac disease. Could you be one of them? #CoeliacAwarenessMonth #CoeliacStories
This May we're on a mission to find the 500,000 people in the UK living with undiagnosed coeliac disease. From 1-31 May we're spreading the word about the condition, and you can help make a difference. Thanks to our community, last year we reached over 1 million people and helped over 11,000 people find answers to their unexplained symptoms with our online self-assessment. You can help us achieve even more in 2024. Sign up for a pack today and see how you can get involved Register for your Coeliac Awareness Month 2024 pack: https://lnkd.in/eefpkuGX #CoeliacAwarenessWeek2024 #CoeliacStories #CoeliacUK #CoeliacDisease