Every morning, Dehradun’s Gurpreet Kaur would lovingly pack a nutritious lunch for her youngest daughter. But lately, upon returning home from school, her daughter’s tiffins seemed to remain untouched.
“This became a routine. And when I would try to serve her some food, she would say, ‘Mumma, I am not hungry’. It surprised me. How can a child in their growing years not be hungry all day?” asks the 45-year-old mother.
Day by day, Gurpreet started noticing that her seven-year-old daughter was getting pale and low on energy. “She was also not growing in height and weight compared to her peers. She even started getting stomach aches frequently,” she tells The Better India.
In 2008, a visit to their family doctor revealed that her daughter had celiac disease. “After an ultrasound and some other tests, we found out that she had developed knots in her small intestine. She had a very high infection. The next step was a biopsy. It was confirmed that her diagnosis…