Have ya’ll read about the gluten detecting dog? I want one!! This big guy is not only an AK
C champ, he trained in Slovenia to detect the presence of gluten in any foods. His owner is a veterinary student & she takes him everywhere.
“You can’t drop your guard for even a minute,” says Scott, who likens an attack to “a really extremely bad case of stomach flu” from which her body doesn’t recover fully for nearly three weeks. But even hyper-vigilance isn’t a 100% guarantee.
“I was never a picky eater,” says Scott, but the celiac disease “brings a whole new level of stress” to the very notion of mealtime, and the extra layer of protection Elias provides is “comforting.”
Read the whole story in USA Today.
