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I'm thinking the mother needs to let everyone know she has the problem, just as you would a diabetic child, so that this child can have the best opportunity not to be exposed to gluten.  To me, it is worse to be celiac than diabetic, and I'm Type 1, because with sugar infractions you can give more insulin to get it down.  However, my understanding, because no one in my family is celiac diagnosed, is that celiac patients have to go months to be free of the effects of gluten exposure, and some react worse than others to gluten encounters and can take months to get back to where they were prior to an exposure.

As far as educating a child, I have two children who will know what they are suppose to do, but when an adult at school tells them to do something, they do it because it was an adult telling them otherwise.  I've asked my eldest why don't you speak up, because he gets in trouble for minor things that others students say about him, but he says it didn't happen that way.  All the students have figured out that he gets in trouble easily and uses it.  He's gotten in so much trouble for talking and such that he just automatically thinks he's guilty when an adult speaks to him and he won't defend himself.  And, before you think that's stupid, just know they both have auditory processing and social issues.

So, you can't always trust that a child will do what's best for themselves when they're in a class full of peers doing something else.  Children need guidance, especially a first time student.




      

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