I am 22 years old and I have gotten diagnosed with celiac disease back in 2021. My sister who is 20 is also diagnosed with celiac disease. And I have a father who has type 1 diabetes. My dad has a stable and well paying job where he does not need to fear or have issues with finding food that his body can tolerate. However for my sister and myself, we have a hard time being able to afford groceries that our bodies can tolerate. I know that there are some countries that provide a type of stipend to help them afford groceries and food that they have to eat in order for their bodies to not attack itself. Maybe it would be nice to find a way to help people who have a celiac diagnosis or really any auto immune that requires a change in diet. Weather it’s a change prices or a stipend of some sort to help young people like my sister and myself to buy groceries without draining our accounts.
I’m in a similar situation myself. Thank you for proposing this.
Fellow Celiac here! I would totally appreciate this for people with autoimmune diseases. It is not talked about enough!
The price gouging for foods made for those with food allergies/autoimmune diseases is outrageous, and something definitely needs done about it.
Autoimmune diseases are so hard to pin-point sometimes. I think they all need to be heavily researched upon more. My poor sister has been threw the ringer for 16 years, from age 19 to now 35. She has Ankylosing Spondylitis and another unknown autoimmune disorder that attacks all of her organs. Shes lost most of her sight because it attacked her eyes. Have had to regrow and heal organs, her esophagus, and is barely allowed to eat anything, and the 3 things she can eat ate everchanging daily depending on what her disorder feels shes allergic to thay day… we need more research options out there for rare disorders. Because care for her, and options of medications for her that make her normal days semi bareable, are on their last leg of help. If her autoimmune disorder randomly feels one day that her medication is now an allergy, she has no other options to turn to to help. And this did just happen to her with one of her medications literally 2 weeks ago.