Support Uno's National Dough Rai$er for Celiac Awareness! And Uno's Now Offers Gluten-Free Pizza!

Will share this info with a couple of people I know who must maintain gluten-free diets. Thanks for the info!

Thanks for commenting, Kimberly!

1.  Pizzaria Uno  in Chicago serves the best pizza on the planet.  I'm not familiar with Uno's Chicago Grill.

2.  My daughter and grandson are gluten-intolerant.

Thanks for commenting, John. Note that the voucher is not good at Pizzeria Uno, only at Uno's Chicago Grill. I wish we had an Uno's of either kind nearby!

It is great.

Thanks for commenting, Kushal.

Alison,  Who would have thought.  After reading the symptoms of Celiac it seems to me that they are much the same as my family's Fibromyalgia symptoms.  My granddaughter especially, the white bread lover, has terrible intentinal problems and had a colonoscopy at age 20.  They did a biopsy but it came back negative HOWEVER, they did not mention Celiac to her nor did she think they had done blood tests for Celiac.  We are now sending for the records, this was done in the south while her husband was stationed there for military.  

Maybe, instead of living with steadily declining health as she and her mother/my daughter have done, we could just change our diet.  I know it sounds weird to say JUST change our diet, but we've had unnecessary surgeries, years of therapy and drugs for depression, pain so bad I've been in a wheel chair off and on, constant battles with "allergies", "chronic sinusitis, sleep problems, neuropathy in feet and legs, and a colon cancer scare, or Khrons disease.  I have osteopenia too.  
So diet seems an easier and cheaper fix to me.

I could go on but why because you know the story of doctor after doctor, and bad diagnosis after good.    1 in 133, that's just amazing that the medical profession can't get it right and that the USA doesn't test but European government health programs screen routinely for this disease.   I'll be back for recipes.  We don't have a Chicago Grill either.  Too bad, we love pizza.  My little great grandson got so sick after eating half a pan pizza.  He bloated, had gas, and got very constipated.  Poor little kid, we were feeding him poison.

Sandy, your story is sadly typical of so many individuals and families' experience with getting diagnosed. Doctors are not up-to-date on the frequency of gluten intolerance and celiac disease, and when they are, they think that blood tests and biopsies are some kind of "gold standard" for diagnosis, when actually the blood tests only indicate that you have full-blown disease (from which you may or may not recover on a gluten-free diet, as much damage has already been done). Like saying you have high blood pressure AFTER you get the heart attack. I don't know why our medical world is so locked into iffy lab tests, when an empirical trial of going without gluten will show measurable results within three months and is much cheaper. Some symptoms resolve within two weeks, others (such as anemia, respiratory allergies, asthma, osteoporosis and others) take longer to resolve or improve. When we educate ourselves we can avoid the horrible expense of going to doctor after doctor. Nevertheless, it is good if our children can get a diagnosis, so that they and their school and other institutions understand the seriousness of adherence to a gluten-free diet.

I hope your family is on the road to good health!

Thanks for sharing this information, Alison.

Thanks for commenting, Marianne. Now you know where to go eat with your gluten-free friends--if you have a Uno's around!

Thanks for the info, Alison. We don't have a Chicago Grill here either but it's good to know that the issue of Celiac Disease is finally being addressed by some restaurants.

Thanks for commenting, Marge. If Uno's can do it, so can other restaurants!