Celiac Disease
Celiac Disease Triggers Unusual Symptoms
Celiac disease remains mysterious, even to physicians. In this condition the body is unable to tolerate proteins found in gluten, a constituent of wheat, barley and rye grains. Although there is a gen…
Is Floating Poop A Problem?
This is a truth test! Do you ever check to see whether your stool sinks or floats? Be honest now. It never fails to amaze us how many people pay close attention to what ends up in the toilet bowl. Peo…
Is Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity a Figment of th…
Decades ago, American doctors believed they would never see a case of celiac disease because it was considered too rare. Over the years, though, research showed that celiac disease is not rare. Now, t…
Painful Cracked Lips Linked to Digestive Disorde…
From time to time, we hear from people with painful cracked lips looking for an explanation and, hopefully, a way to address the problem. If the cracks have appeared at the corners of the mouth, as th…
Show 1179: What Should You Do About Digestive Di…
Have you ever had horrible heartburn or a really bad bellyache? Most of us have experienced digestive distress at one time or another. When do you need to seek medical attention for your problem? What…
Show 1221: What Explains the Recent Increase in …
A couple of decades ago, most people had never heard of celiac disease. Many doctors had never diagnosed a case, and they had often learned it was an extremely rare condition. Following a gluten-free …
Can Vitamin B12 Prevent Recurrent Canker Sores?
What do you for canker sores? Most of us get these painful lesions inside the cheek or on the tongue occasionally. They cause misery for a few days and then they disappear. But some individuals suffer…
Celiac Disease Diagnosis Is Not Just for Babies
Until relatively recently (approximately the past two decades), doctors rarely offered a celiac disease diagnosis to an adult. They thought the condition was really quite rare and that it primarily af…
Is Celiac Disease More Common in People Exposed …
Have you been avoiding gluten? Twenty years ago, you might never have heard of gluten. The name “celiac disease” probably would have sounded exotic. No longer. Now, some scientists have linked the…
Will Gluten-Free Diet Ease Arthritis Pain?
If you suffer from joint pain, you may have wondered why. Most people never get an explanation. Perhaps the doctor suggests that "wear and tear" has broken down the cartilage. When the doctor ends by …
If Leaky Gut Syndrome Exists, How Can You Test f…
Several years ago, we were at a small conference attended by some very thoughtful physicians. The overall theme of the discussions focused on the concept of empowered patients. These doctors were tota…
What Is the Link Between Infection and Celiac Di…
Celiac disease is an intolerance to the protein gluten found in wheat, barley and rye. It triggers the immune system to attack and damage the lining of the digestive tract. Doctors have long known tha…
Show 1100: What Is the Story on Celiac Disease? …
At one time, doctors believed that celiac disease was extremely rare, that the few children who had it would outgrow it and that the symptoms were primarily digestive. We now know that none of these a…
How Much Gluten Is in a Gluten-Free Diet?
People with celiac disease react badly when they consume gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley or rye. Their immune systems go into overdrive and attack the lining of the intestine, resulting in da…
Will There Be a Vaccine to Prevent Celiac Diseas…
Why do some people develop celiac disease, while others with a similar genetic makeup do not? Is there a way to prevent celiac disease? Researchers writing in the journal Science propose that the expl…
Show 1049: Do You Need a Gluten-Free Diet?
Years ago, doctors thought that celiac disease was incredibly rare among Americans. In this auto-immune condition, exposure to gluten found in barley, rye and wheat causes the body to attack the linin…
Why Are More People on a Gluten-Free Diet?
Ten or twenty years ago, people following a gluten-free diet had a difficult time. Foods like pasta or crackers were not available in gluten-free versions. Now, that has changed. Baked goods without …
Feeling Better on a Gluten-Free Diet
Gluten (and gluten-free) are words you just can't avoid these days, though just ten years ago they were not part of most people's vocabularies. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. From…
Could Floating Poop Be A Sign of Celiac Disease?
Several years ago we heard from a concerned reader that his bowel movements floated. At first he worried it might be something really serious, like pancreatic cancer. But then he realized he would hav…
Nerve Damage Higher in Celiac Disease Patients
Celiac disease has long been perceived as a digestive disorder. That's because the cells that line the small intestine undergo immune system attack. This can lead to nutritional deficiencies because c…
Gluten-Free Diet Stopped Chronic Migraines
Q. Reading your column provided me with life-changing information. I am now 56. As a child and into my late teens I endured chronic belly pain. Despite many tests over the years, no diagnosis was esta…
No Magic Window for Infants’ Gluten Exposu…
Celiac disease is an intolerance to the protein gluten found in wheat, barley and rye. Although there is a genetic predisposition to this autoimmune condition, a striking increase in incidence over th…
Chronic Hives Disappeared with the Elimination o…
Q. About three years ago I developed chronic hives--raging carpets of hives, mysteriously appearing mostly between the hours of 6 pm and 6 am. We couldn't figure out what was causing them. When my doc…
Gluten-Free Foods Are More Than a Fad for Celiac…
Q. After seeing many top doctors who told her to eat a bland diet of bagels and pasta for her irritable bowel syndrome, my sister consulted Dr. Peter Green at Columbia Medical Center. There, she was g…
Long Term Risk of Celiac Disease
Celiac disease is an autoimmune condition triggered by gluten in the diet of sensitive individuals. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye, and consequently is common in some of America's …
Gluten-Free Defined at Last
Avoiding gluten can be challenging. Many prepared foods contain gluten as a hidden ingredient. That is why there has been an explosion in gluten-free foods in supermarkets. But can you trust the glute…
Floating Poop Poses Diagnostic Puzzle
Q. As far back as I can remember, my stool has floated. I never worried about it until I saw something on the web about pancreatic cancer and floating poop. I did some research and found that if you h…
Are You Suffering from Celiac Disease?
Not so long ago, most doctors were taught that celiac disease is extremely rare. In the last few decades, it has become clear that celiac disease, an inability to digest gluten, is not nearly as unusu…
Celiac Disease Diagnoses on the Rise
Celiac disease was once considered extremely rare. Now it is much more common. In this autoimmune condition, exposure to gluten, a protein in wheat, barley and rye, damages the lining of the small int…
Celiac Disease More Common among White Americans
How common is celiac disease? At one time, medical students were taught that only one person in 5,000 had this condition in which a reaction to gluten damages the intestinal lining. Gluten, a protein …
Could Celiac Disease Be Causing Symptoms?
Q. Your radio show on celiac disease inspired me to drop gluten-containing grains at the age of 38, and I never felt better. Like so many people I had fallen through the diagnostic cracks. I can trace…
Do You Suffer From Celiac Disease?
Most physicians still think of celiac disease (an intolerance to gluten found in wheat, barley and rye) as a rare condition. That is why more than 90% of people with celiac disease go undiagnosed in t…
Avoiding Gluten Stopped Migraines
Q. I had migraines all my life and have taken everything and more in the way of drugs. In December I decided to quit eating gluten (wheat, barley and rye). To my surprise, my headaches disappeared. A.…
Can You Outgrow Celiac Disease?
Q. I always thought celiac disease was extremely rare and only affected young children. I was told that I had celiac sprue as a child but that I had outgrown it. I suffer a lot of digestive tract disc…
Colon Cleanse Not Recommended for Celiac Disease
Q. My husband has been diagnosed with celiac disease, which means he has to avoid wheat, barley and rye. A friend has suggested that he should also do a colon cleanse. I have my doubts, but would like…
Don’t Be A Glutton for Gluten
For years, medical students were taught that celiac disease was extremely rare. In this condition, the protein in wheat, barley and rye (gluten) triggers an autoimmune response that destroys the intes…
Celiac Sufferers Beware
Celiac disease is common and complicated. People with this condition cannot tolerate gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. When exposed, their immune systems attack the lining of the small…
Looking for Cause of Gas
Q. I have been troubled with "sour stomach" throughout my life. Even the tiniest burp smells like sulfurous rotten eggs and can be smelled across large rooms. I also pass huge amounts of foul-smelling…
Celiac Disease Boosts Mortality
People with celiac disease are at greater risk for premature death. That's the conclusion of a new study from Sweden. The investigators used health records from the Swedish Total Population Register a…
Celiac Disease in Later Life
There is a growing recognition that celiac disease is more common than previously acknowledged. Many scientists believe that this gluten intolerance starts early in life. But Finnish researchers now s…