Custom Choice Cereal finds it hard to believe but we’re really writing again about research on celiac disease. At least it is a good sign that the medical community has identified celiac as a serious enough topic to allocate more resources to it. While yesterday’s blog entry was about the benefits of gluten-free summer camp for celiac children, we are a little bit more practical today.
Danish researchers from the Odense University Hospital used a simple questionnaire with only 5 questions to identify children with a high likelihood of suffering from celiac disease. They were able to diagnose an additional 14 celiac children in a region that previously had only 13 known kids with celiac disease, i.e. the rate of successfully diagnosed kids more than doubled! The questions they asked were
- Has your child ever suffered from abdominal pain more than twice during the last three months?
- Has your child ever had diarrhea lasting more than two weeks?
- Does your child have a tendency to firm and hard stools?
- Does your child gain enough weight?
- Does your child gain enough height?
You can also read the article on this research directly at WebMD’s Celiac Disease Health Center.
