Dangers of living with coeliac disease

‘When we can manage our own diets we are safe.’ Photograph: Image Source/Alamy

I was horrified to read that an 80-year-old woman with coeliac disease died after vomiting as a result of being given Weetabix in hospital, and even more shocked to read that a consultant geriatrician told the inquest that “coeliac disease did not usually cause vomiting” (Report, 17 June).

Let me tell you that, as an otherwise fit and healthy 61-year-old coeliac, if I eat even a smidgen of gluten I vomit repeatedly for hours, and I have twice have passed out as a result and injured myself.