Celiac Sprue Disease

What if your doctor told you that eating a certain food say pizza would be devastating to your health? You might not like it, but you'd learn to live with it. But what if it was more than just pizza? What if you were told to avoid all bread, breadcrumbs, and pasta? And dozens of breakfast cereals, canned soups, luncheon meats, and salad dressings? And a wide variety of ice creams, ice cream cones, cookies, …

…he doesn't even look in the drawer with the chips and the coffee cakes; instead, he reaches for his rice crackers and cheese. When going out to eat, there is a card we have that instructs the chef everything he can and can't have. Although this is a disease that will stick with him for the rest of his life, he has been doing a great job keeping a positive attitude about the whole thing.