I just read a pretty frightening article.

Seems that researchers in Sweden have decided that infants genetically at risk for celiac disease double the risk of developing the disease if fed gluten before age two.

Check it out here.

Honestly every Jewish house tends to give their babies gluten straight from the beginning if everyone in the house isn’t celiac.  Challah is a huge part of our traditions.  It’s a mitzvah, G-d’s will for us to eat challah every Shabbos, something which is a really big headache for people with celiac disease unless they have someone to make them some yummy gluten-free challah and if they don’t, or they can’t deal with eating gluten-free oats – they lose the mitzvah.  Someone like my mother-in-law, who unfortunately does not really tolerate oats, has to just drink an extra serving of wine/grape juice as delineated in this article from Chabad.org.

Thank G-d Cheerios are gluten-free now.  No, really, this time they are. Really.  General Mills is already being sued for their original botch, BTW.  They hand them out in the schools and I don’t know what they would feed the kids in daycare if they didn’t have them. 

What do you think?  When did you start giving your child gluten?  Or did you not?  Please comment below.