My DD (5) has very bad eczema. We were told it was most likely a dairy allergy. We have cut out dairy, but 2 years later she's still suffering. She's itchy all the time and scratching herself raw. She often complains of stomach aches, she's constipated and only goes once a week. Her stools are very pale in colour. I have suspected for quite a while that she may have a gluten intolerance or coeliac, but keep getting fobbed off by Dr's and prescribed with more creams for her skin.
I would like to trial her going gluten free for a week to see if there's any improvement. I've heard from many people who've done this that they've had immediate improvement which helped strengthen their case for further testing from Dr's.
Problem is I don't know very much about going gluten free. She loves carby stuff and usually has toast or cereal for breakfast, a sandwich and fruit and veg for lunch and chicken, veg and some kind of carb for dinner. She loves chicken and rice and soy sauce so I've added GF Tamari to our weekly shop along with a seeded GF bread (most similar to what she'd normally eat) and some rice crackers to snack on. But what else can I give her to eat? Obviously meat, fish, fruit & veg are fine. But I'm lost as to what we have in the house that will have hidden gluten in it that she'd normally snack on and what I need to stay away from. As well as what things are safe.
I don't want to invest a lot of GF foods straight off the bat as I'm just trialing this for a week at first.
Does anyone have any tips for a GF beginner please? Child friendly meals / snacks. And can anyone point me in the right direction of child friendly U.K. based resources that I can read up on?