Mine is an interesting and "late in life" journey. First, a little background.  I'm the youngest of four girls (by 15 years - whoops!) in my family.  I was diagnosed coeliac at the ripe old age of 56. After suffering from long Covid in 2021, I felt tired, lethargic and generally unwell. There was no […]

It’s different for everybody, and for me, coeliac disease has been more emotional than I ever expected. I was diagnosed just before Christmas 2023, after years of being told my symptoms were IBS. I also have Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism, so I wasn’t new to autoimmune conditions, but the news still hit hard. I thought the biggest […]

The 2024 New Zealand Coeliac Health Survey was the second such national survey, with the first undertaken in 2012. The 2024 survey was completed by 1370 people with doctor-confirmed coeliac disease, of whom 83% were women and 206 were aged less than 16 years. A key finding among those aged 16 years and over in the […]