Celiac under diagnosed, New Report

[Guest guest]

HI all...

I consider Arline our resident pro with the knowledge of Celiac disease. (HI~ Arline), I'm passing on this new report that just came out about how under-diagnosed it really is.. check it out here from Web MD)

Dee

http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/celiac-disease/news/20080520/celiac-disease-underdiagnosed?ecd=wnl_art_052608

''It is estimated that one in every 100 Americans may be affected by celiac disease. But "only 5% of these people have ever been diagnosed," says H. Green, MD, professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University Medical School in New York City.''....

[Guest guest]

Hi Dee,

Thanks for this. The thing about these gluten things

is that one doesn't just have the common stereotypical

symptoms but the whole body is affected.

Another thing, about what Green says about the

number of people with it. Celiac itself is only about

the small intestine being damaged enough for the blood

tests to pick up the blood. They are very inaccurate

and don't come close to all the people who are really

affected in life threatening ways. It has been said

that 30 percent and larger of the population are

affected by gluten. Mainstream medical seems to only

want to concern themselves with their inaccurate blood

tests.

This disease is serious, a body wide systemic

autoimmune disease that does a lot more than damage

just to the small intestine--like the entire nervous

system and any body organ.

Everybody should be tested especially those that have

weird and multiple supposed diseases (like for example

vulvar, gyn, bladder, diabetes, thyroid, skin. etc).

A stool test at Enterolab or saliva test somewhere

that has escaped me are the only accurate tests in the

country and I'm not the only one incidentally that

believes that. Some things can't be fixed without

finding the cause.

Arline

--- Dee Troll dtroll@...> wrote:

> HI all...

>

> I consider Arline our resident pro with the

> knowledge of Celiac disease. (HI~ Arline), I'm

> passing on this new report that just came out about

> how under-diagnosed it really is.. check it out here

> from Web MD)

> Dee

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http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/celiac-disease/news/20080520/celiac-dis\

ease-underdiagnosed?ecd=wnl_art_052608

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> ''It is estimated that one in every 100 Americans

> may be affected by celiac disease. But " only 5% of

> these people have ever been diagnosed, " says

> H. Green, MD, professor of clinical medicine at

> Columbia University Medical School in New York

> City.''....

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