Giselle Wrigley - Go Gluten and Dairy Free and Feel Great!

Go GLUTEN and DAIRY FREE and feel GREAT!

Giselle Wrigley
BSc (Hons) Pharmacy

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Go Gluten and Dairy Free and Feel Great!

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Introduction

Welcome to your guide to going gluten and dairy free. You may have longstanding allergies or coeliac disease or you may just be at the point of suspecting that your medical symptoms are food related; either way this book is for you.

I suffer myself with both allergies (nuts diagnosed as a child) and intolerances (wheat and dairy diagnosed in my thirties). One of my daughters also suffers with allergies to dairy but neither my husband nor my other child do.

As a busy mother and pharmacist with two businesses, I found the challenge of cooking healthy, free-from food for my family quite overwhelming. Without the right advice, going dairy and gluten- free can be all-consuming and easily turn feeding your family into a full-time job.

This book is the one I would like to have read myself when I was first coming to grips with going gluten and dairy free. It is not only full of practical advice but also a number of QUICK, EASY and HEALTHY recipes.

In Part One of this book I explain the difference between allergies and intolerances, what causes them, how to get diagnosed, and most importantly how to treat them.

In Part Two I talk you through the most recent advice on healthy eating, which vitamin supplements are beneficial for people with gluten and dairy sensitivities, and why.

In Part Three , I give you simple recipes that your whole family will want to eat which are free from dairy and gluten (most are also free from nuts, soya, and eggs too).

Feel free to dip in and out of the sections that interest you each part can be read in isolation.

My story

This book has come about through years of interest in nutrition and personal experience of dietary issues. Allergies and intolerances affect people differently, but there is no doubt that until you have them under control, they have a significant impact on health and well-being.

My journey into allergies started at age five when I asked my parents for a treat at the supermarket. The brand of chocolate I chose contained nuts, and we spent a fraught evening in A&E after my face ballooned to the size of a watermelon within seconds of ingesting the offending item.

People who have allergies often present what is known as an atopic range of conditions. If you have atopy, you have either eczema, asthma or hay fever (or some combination thereof), and are typically predisposed to allergies. Atopy runs in families; my dad has hay fever and I suffered as a child with eczema, asthma and allergies to nuts, sesame seeds, eggs, dust and animals. As an adult, my allergies and asthma were manageable and I grew out of my eczema and egg allergy. So far so good; however, in my thirties I then began my journey into the world of food intolerance my problems here are with gluten and dairy.

I am not alone with this as it is an increasingly common problem for many. Figures released by Allergy UK say that up to 45% of the population claim they suffer with food intolerance at some time, and the main offenders are thought to be gluten and dairy. Until recently, food intolerance was often dismissed by the medical community: diagnosis is difficult and medics are understandably cautious about recommending cutting whole food groups out of the diet without good reason.

Novak Jokcovic, the worlds current number one tennis player, with 6 grand slams and 14 Masters Titles to his name, suffers with a gluten intolerance that went undiagnosed for years. He was plagued with chest pain, stomach spasms and fatigue that he just couldnt get to the bottom of and which affected his game significantly. It wasnt until a Serbian doctor diagnosed him as gluten intolerant in 2010 and completely overhauled his diet that he was finally relieved of his symptoms; he describes the change in how he feels now he is gluten free as like magic.

Symptoms of intolerance can be wide-ranging and can be anything from gastrointestinal symptoms to joint pain, skin problems, headaches and fatigue. It is important to note here how crucial it is to get medical help if you do suspect food intolerance and havent been diagnosed; you cannot presume medical symptoms are food related other underlying medical issues must always be checked out first.

Personally, my issues with intolerance started after two particularly difficult pregnancies where I had suffered with hyperemesis (leading me to vomit 12-14 times a day for 9 long months), and symptoms were mainly gastrointestinal plus exhaustion. I am quite a get-up-and-go person, so at first I just put it down to parenthood and having small children (sleep deprivation is a form of torture after all anyone not sleeping for four years wouldnt expect to be on best form!). My GP did send me for an appointment with a consultant gastroenterologist, but both an ultrasound test and gastroscopy camera revealed nothing.

In the interim, a friend of mine had been to see a naturopathic practitioner and recommended this particular practitioner highly. I went to see her, explained my symptoms, had a Vega test done (which I was very sceptical about) but duly cut out gluten, dairy and caffeine from my diet as this test had recommended. Well, if Novak describes his experience as magic; I remember describing mine as a miracle (and I dont use that word lightly). Having lived for such a long time feeling as I had done, the fact that my symptoms cleared up after four weeks of simply abstaining from certain foods was miraculous to me. The gastric consultant I saw subsequently (to marvel about my discovery with!) did concede that caffeine is a gastric irritant but was rather dismissive of my other claims about gluten as my blood tests had come back negative for coeliac disease. Nonetheless, I was cock-a-hoop as I had found a new lease of life and finally felt like myself again.