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[quote=Anonymous]My husband has type 1 diabetes and celiac and we've talked to a genetics counselor, his doctor, his diabetes doctor, the doctor the diabetes doctor referred him to, my gyno and doctor, the head of endocrine genomics at a university, and a medical professor.

-Is there any way to decrease the odds of our future child getting Type 1 diabetes? (We heard a pregnancy gluten-free diet decreases the likelihood, weren't sure, no concrete answers). 
-Given my husband's medical history, should we put our future child on a low/no gluten diet?
-We heard of TrialNet (which monitors kids of T1 diabetics for their likelihood of T1 themselves, via tracking presence of antibodies over time). The closest TrialNet location is NYC but we live in the DC area.
-We heard rotavirus vaccines decrease the likelihood by 33% of T1D. How do we find a doctor who administers this?

Basically, I want to not feel like a sitting duck, waiting for scary things to happen--we want to take charge of our future kids' health, if only we could find folks on the same page in the DMV area.

Any advice? re: above questions?[/quote]

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