Have you been feeling tired and sick with muscle cramps, just not feeling right, but your doctor can't figure out what's wrong? Have you had all sorts of tests but they keep coming up normal? [...]
Just one crumb of gluten may as well be an entire loaf of bread to someone with celiac disease. Celiac patients can't even have a tiny crumb; that's all it takes to trigger their immune [...]
What if the blood test for celiac disease is negative, but a stool sample is positive for elevated antigliadins? Was your celiac blood test negative, but a stool sample positive for elevated antibodies for gluten? [...]
Should people with the celiac disease gene avoid gluten even if they have no symptoms of gluten intolerance? About 30 percent of the American population has the gene associated with celiac disease. According to the [...]
If you have the celiac gene but not the disease, should you eliminate gluten? The short answer is: No. Even if celiac disease only develops in people who have the genes for it, having the [...]
Ever wonder why, at the annual physical exam, your primary care doctor doesn't do a genetic screening for celiac disease? Since celiac disease takes an average of nine years to be diagnosed in a symptomatic [...]
Celiac disease specialist, Dr. Stefano Guandalini, addresses the cancer issue. You may know that having celiac disease increases your risk of developing intestinal cancer. This is because as celiac disease progresses, the damage to the [...]
Celiac disease is much more common than you think, which begs the question if whether or not a bowel movement sample can indicate the presence of this condition. BMs and Celiac Disease Most celiacs are [...]
You can have celiac disease and not even know it; that's because half of people with this autoimmune disorder don't have any symptoms. So how do they learn they have it? Usually it's because they [...]
