Can you claim any benefits of you have been diagnosed with coeliac disease?

Hi you can get prescriptions for gluten free food. Depending on age you have an allowance of units, I have 14 units usually pasta,bread, crackers, gluten free flour, pizza bases, etc etc I think it will be the cost of one prescription for you. Unless you have free prescriptions. It is well worth having being as gluten free food is so expensive. If you haven't already join coeliac UK online it is very very helpful if you are newly diagnosed you can get a reduced joining fee, it's normally £24 a year but you get so much info and updates regularly. Hope this helps.😀

No sure, I've only recently been told I may have it. I understand there may be prescriptions for staple foods, I hope so cos bread is a lot  more expensive than the one I usually buy.

No sure, I've only recently been told I may have it. I understand there may be prescriptions for staple foods, I hope so cos bread is a lot  more expensive than the one I usually buy.

First, I'd like to say that I'm sorry you've been diagnosed with this, but now that you know you have it, you can keep yourself well!

The MAIN benefit of knowing is not getting increasingly sick!  Untreated CD leads to other autoimmune diseases and things such as heart disease and cancer, usually intestinal, I believe.  

I don't have CD - I was just tested with biopsy/endscopy, but my son does.  We're the type who live to eat instead of the other way around and it's held us back as we figure out his every meal/snack before we do anything now. Travel is difficult for us.  BUT, his mood is better, he no longer doubles over in pain and we just may have saved him from something like Juvenile Diabetes (his cousin has it) or the intestinal cancers than run on both sides of my family.

In the US, we just try not to flinch as we purchase bread, crackers, etc. since we don't have the same health subsidies that you do. 

I would say it took 4-6 months for real healing, but my son did better within about a month or less. After 4 weeks, we put him on full dairy with no lactase enzyme supplements and we knew his gut had healed enough that the villi were restored and producing lactase on their own...maybe it was sooner but we didn't try for the first four months. He had villus atrophy pretty far along at his diagnosis.  So, for him I'm sure the benefits were felt within!

Good luck to you!

Given that you should be able to lead a completely normal life if you follow a gluten-free diet you would not be entitled to any benefits. Of course, if you have a disability of some kind in addition to coeliac disease you may be entitled to some kind of benefit, e.g. Personal Independence Payment.