Celiac Disease For Dummies

Ian Blumer · Sheila Crowe

Feb 2010 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons

About this ebook

The everyday guide to understanding and treating Celiac disease

Celiac Disease For Dummies is the ultimate reference for people with the disease and their family members. The book helps readers identify symptoms of the disease, and explains how doctors definitively diagnose celiac disease. It outlines how celiac disease affects the body, and what its consequences could be if untreated. The authors explain how celiac disease is treated, not only through the elimination of gluten from the diet, but with additional nutritional measures and alternative and complementary therapies.

• Provides practical, helpful hints for raising children with Celiac disease
• Also written by Ian Blumer: Diabetes for Canadians For Dummies and Understanding Prescription Drugs for Canadians For Dummies
• Full of anecdotes and helpful tips, here is an invaluable guide to living with, and controlling, Celiac disease

Written by two practicing physicians, the book also offers practical, helpful guidance for parents of children with celiac disease, whose treatment may be a particular challenge.

Ratings and reviews

But seriously, one day people are going to look back and laugh. Yes - it's really important to have an invasive procedure done - when a simple blood test has pretty much 100% specificity. Yeah, ok, it misses 20% of celiacs but if it says you have celiac - either the lab stuffed up or you have celiac - so have another blood test to confirm it - no need to spend money on a less accurate and quite invasive procedure. So here's the low down- Gluten is affecting you when anti-gliadin antibodies are running around your blood stream. (officially gluten sensitivity - forget the whole latent crap) So if you have those antibodies running around you have a problem. If you think otherwise check up on the recent research into gluten ataxia. So if you can get THAT blood test, not the celiac one and then follow all the celiac advice. It's very good.

About the author

Ian Blumer, MD, is a specialist in internal medicine in Ontario, Canada and has an appointment with the University of Toronto. Dr. Blumer lectures across North America and appears regularly on television, radio, and other media. Sheila Crowe, MD, is a professor of medicine at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, specializing in digestive diseases including celiac disease. Dr. Crowe is named in "Best Doctors in America."