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May is Coeliac Disease Awareness Month🧡 Coeliac disease is a condition where your immune system attacks your own tissues when you eat gluten. This damages your gut (small intestine) so your body cannot properly take in nutrients🥬 I was diagnosed when I was 19 with anemia and also Vitamin D deficiency little did I know until I had a blood test it turned out I had coeliac disease🙋🏼♀️ Reason for this post?🤷🏼♀️ 1 in a 100 have Coeliac Disease and they may not even be showing the usual stomach symptoms, on average it takes 13years to be diagnosed! As a volunteer for CoeliacUK I’ve seen fellow peers with coeliac disease who need community to combat isolation around food and the struggles with prices of day to day items such as bread🍞 here’s a picture of one of our cafe meets! Please take a moment to check Coeliac UK for more information on the research they are doing and they also have ‘check your symptoms’ link can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eG4ZMy-f Thank you for reading if you got this far, please do check out Coeliac UK website for more information. #autoimmune #awareness #CoeliacUK