Tips for Balancing Relationships When You Join the Celiac Circus

If you have celiac disease, you may have friends, family, or a significant other who is hesitant about eating gluten-containing foods in front of you. You might also have friends, family, or a significant other whom you think would benefit from getting screened for celiac, but perhaps you are hesitant about how often to bring it up. Balancing relationships with celiac disease can be a challenge. Here are a couple of tips for maneuvering what can sometimes feel like a circus after being diagnosed with celiac. 1) Reassure those who don't have celiac disease that you won't be offended if they eat non-gluten-free foods in front of you. Picture it. Your boyfriend/girlfriend bounds uninhibitedly toward the free samples in the bakery. He/she turns to you, and those gleeful peepers widen with horror as the realization hits that Boo can't indulge. As bad as your significant other feels that you can't participate in the free sampling, you may or may not feel worse, depending on your perspective about being diagnosed with celiac disease. It's likely that you'll come across various people who feel guilty for enjoying glutenous foods in front of you. It's a good idea to let them know that there might be a reason for them to feel guilty if they presented you with a dinner on spinning plates secretly laced with breadcrumbs, but otherwise, it really doesn't bother you. Longing for a little morsel of bloating and pains? Don't think so. 2) Encourage your friends and family to get screened,...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news