I am reading a book called Celiac Disease: A Hidden Epidemic and here is a small excerpt out of the book. Parental Attitudes Parents, family, friends, and teachers play a large role in children’s perception of and adaptation to celiac disease. These individuals set the tone and become, in large part, the enabling force that [...]
Most physicians learned during medical school that celiac disease was so rare they would never see a patient with symptoms in their entire medical career. Lectures on celiac disease in medical schools, even today, are few and far between. When your doctor was in medical school, he or she may have heard a 20-30 minute [...]
Yes. Recent research has demonstrated that a significant percentage of children and adults with positive celiac blood tests, even when proven celiac by the biopsy, had no or minimal symptoms when they were tested. Further, there are a few patients that carry the gene for celiac disease, have no or minimal symptoms and negative blood [...]
Celiac Disease presents with as many as 300 different symptoms, many of them subtle and seemingly unrelated. Yet a significant percentage of people with Celiac Disease have no symptoms at all. People without symptoms are at the same risk for the complications associated with Celiac Disease. Recurring abdominal bloating and pain Chronic diarrhea/constipation Vomiting Liver and [...]
Before diagnosis or After diagnosis, you are an absolute fool to think that educating yourself and your family members is the wrong approach. Not telling them to get checked themselves is an even bigger no no! That is completely selfish. I see things happening to my family members that actually really could be linked to [...]
