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One mother’s story: celiac disease

The Tafts have turned Erica's gluten-free diet into a family affair. Although my husband called her “Smiley,” our happy baby, Erica, was clingy and cranky. For two months, we cleaned up after our 22-month-old as she vomited every day and watched in growing alarm as her tummy grew more and more distended, while her arm and leg muscles atrophied. Her pediatrician thought she had a virus, but she wasn’t getting any better. After four weeks, he referred us to Children’s Hospital Boston, where her gastrointestinal doctor suspected celiac disease. A blood test and endoscopy confirmed it, and the diagnosis brought relief. The disease was causing Erica’s immune system to damage the villi in her small intestine, resulting in her body’s inability to absorb nutrients. The prescripti...

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[Celiac News] Researchers take aim at digestive disorder

Researchers take aim at digestive disorder
           

Canadian researchers are testing a new drug for patients who suffer from a chronic digestive disorder called celiac disease, which appears to be afflicting a growing number of people. (Source: CTV Health)MedWorm Sponsor Message: Find a vast selection of gluten free food and GF cookbooks at the Sensible Celiac.
           

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[Celiac News] New celiac disease-specific quality of life questionnaire developed

New celiac disease-specific quality of life questionnaire developed
           

Researchers have developed a new instrument specifically for measuring quality of life in patients with celiac disease. (Source: MedWire News - Gastroenterology)MedWorm Sponsor Message: Find a vast selection of gluten free food and GF cookbooks at the Sensible Celiac.
           

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New celiac disease-specific quality of life questionnaire developed

Researchers have developed a new instrument specifically for measuring quality of life in patients with celiac disease. (Source: MedWire News - Gastroenterology)

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Virus infections may be contributing factor in onset of gluten intolerance

(Academy of Finland) Recent research findings indicate a possible connection between virus infections, the immune system and the onset of gluten intolerance, also known as celiac disease. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)

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Celiac Disease: Pinpointing Immune System Disturbances

New research has identified four aspects of immune system disturbance which lead to the development of coeliac disease. Nearly 40 different inherited risk factors which predispose to the disease have now been identified... (Source: Nutrition/Agriculture News From Medical News Today)

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[Celiac News] 13 New Variants Associated With Celiac Disease Risk

13 New Variants Associated With Celiac Disease Risk
           

In a genomewide study, more than half the variants associated with celiac disease correlated with altered activity of nearby genes.  Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)MedWorm Sponsor Message: Find a vast selection of gluten free food and GF cookbooks at the Sensible Celiac.
           

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Infectious Disease and Risk of Later Celiac Disease in Childhood

CONCLUSION: These results indicate that parent-reported infection at the time of gluten introduction is not a major risk factor for CD. (Source: PEDIATRICS)

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Gene links to celiac disease may help drug search

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have identified new genetic links to celiac disease and say their findings could speed the search for better ways to diagnose and treat the gluten-intolerance disorder. (Source: Reuters: Health)

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Sound Medicine 02-28-10

On Sound Medicine this week, advice about when to introduce infants to solid food; the under-diagnosis of celiac disease; chlamydia reinfections in teen girls; and why people have problems with destination memory. Also, the science of beauty. And some musings on blood donation..... (Source: Sound Medicine)

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Advances of Endomicroscopy for Gastrointestinal Physiology and Diseases.

Authors: Goetz M, Kiesslich R Confocal endomicroscopy is a novel technique that permits in vivo microscopy of the human gastrointestinal mucosa during ongoing endoscopy, thereby providing optical virtual biopsies. Endomicroscopy has been demonstrated to reveal histologic information in a multitude of diseases in the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract in vivo. Most studies have focused on inflammation and neoplasia, such as Barrett's esophagus, gastric cancer, celiac disease, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, or colorectal neoplasias. Endomicroscopy allows obtaining "smart", targeted biopsies from regions with microscopic alterations rather than having to rely on random untargeted tissue sampling. This reduces the number of biopsies while increasing the diagnostic yield. In ad...

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[Celiac News] Infectious Disease Not Linked to Future Celiac Disease

Infectious Disease Not Linked to Future Celiac Disease
           

Children with an infectious disease at the time of gluten introduction do not appear to have an
  increased risk of developing celiac disease, according to a study published online Feb. 22 in
  Pediatrics. (Source: Modern Medicine)MedWorm Sponsor Message: Find a vast selection of gluten free food and GF cookbooks at the ...
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Nutritional status of children with coeliac disease

Conclusions: Children with CD more commonly present with atypical symptoms than with classical features. Variations in nutrition (under to overnutrition) may be seen at diagnosis, without relationship to the presence of symptoms. Leptin levels were not altered specifically in the setting of CD. Nutritional assessment remains important in the assessment and management of CD in children. (Source: Acta Paediatrica)

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Arcadia Biosciences Receives $855,500 Grant To Fund Next-Stage Development Of Wheat With Reduced Celiac Disease Potential

Arcadia Biosciences, Inc... (Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today)

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Health and Nutrition: Restaurant Food Dietary and Health Risks - Associated Content

Americans eat in restaurants and consume fast food at a higher rate than almost any other country. While we are generally aware that eating restaurant foods is less healthy than 'home-cooked', just what are the specific nutrition and health risks ...
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[Personal View] Gluten sensitivity: from gut to brain

Gluten sensitivity is a systemic autoimmune disease with diverse manifestations. This disorder is characterised by abnormal immunological responsiveness to ingested gluten in genetically susceptible individuals. Coeliac disease, or gluten-sensitive enteropathy, is only one aspect of a range of possible manifestations of gluten sensitivity. Although neurological manifestations in patients with established coeliac disease have been reported since 1966, it was not until 30 years later that, in some individuals, gluten sensitivity was shown to manifest solely with neurological dysfunction. Furthermore, the concept of extraintestinal presentations without enteropathy has only recently become accepted. In this Personal View, we review the range of neurological manifestations of gluten sensitivit...

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[Celiac News] Dietary compliance and life style of children with coeliac disease

Dietary compliance and life style of children with coeliac disease
           

Conclusions: Children with CD have low compliance with the GFD. Better education about the disease, the availability of GF products, and appropriate food labelling could improve compliance and quality of life. (Source: Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics)MedWorm Sponsor Message: Find a vast selection of ...
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Dietary compliance and life style of children with coeliac disease

Conclusions: Children with CD have low compliance with the GFD. Better education about the disease, the availability of GF products, and appropriate food labelling could improve compliance and quality of life. (Source: Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics)
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Improved Searching for Gluten Free Food

For years our designs of gluten free food shopping sites have been frustrated by limitations on searching across multiple categories for gluten free food. A recent visit from my far away programmer son led to a very promising breakthrough. We'd like your help in testing and improving the results, if you have a minute. The search form below will open a new window with results from our sister site Gluten Free Search. Results will be displayed according to search terms you provide. The phrase "gluten free" is already embedded in this search, you need only to specify the type, brand or name of the item you wish to locate.

So please think of a brand of gluten free foods, a specific gluten free food item, a gluten free food ingredient, or a type of gluten free food. Type the term in the form below and see if the search results are useful for you, if you can spare a few seconds. Please feel free to leave a comment here if you wish to let us know what you think of this search utility.

Thanks for helping us to make the site as useful as possible, all suggestions are welcome.

Buy Gluten Free Rice Stick and Save Money

Have you ever noticed that once the two words "gluten free" go onto a package it suddenly costs a whole lot more? Many types of gluten free pasta noodles are made from rice, but why not sidestep the gluten free food industry by finding foods that inherently contain no gluten, without being labeled as such?

In Asian cuisine there is a type of noodle called rice stick. In our experience it is gluten free, but of course you must always read the ingredients. Having once lived in an area where there were many Asian people I was lucky enough to learn a bit about Asian cooking, and using rice stick instead of gluten free spaghetti is fast, easy and less expensive.

Usually rice stick is prepared by soaking the noodles in hot water. Boiling is definitely not indicated for most varieties of rice stick. While you are reading the ingredients be sure to check the instructions for preparing your rice stick.

We quite enjoy having rice stick at our house, it comes in varying widths, but the very thin variety used in making Pad Thai is most common. Below is a list of rice stick offerings from Amazon.

Still More New Sites for GF Shoppers

We are in the business of creating websites, so we do. Many of our websites are designed to provide support for people affected by celiac disease, this includes our two latest additions.

   Gluten Free Finds
Gluten Free Finds is a gluten free food shopping site organized according to different types of gluten free food, like pasta, bread mix, etc. We think it is attractive and easy to use. In creating Gluten Free Finds we looked at which products in each category of gluten free food are most popular, and we have configured this site to show you the top selling gluten free items in each category first. We hope you will find it useful and pleasant to look at too.

    Gluten Free Brands
Gluten Free Brands has been designed to show you lists of gluten free food items sorted by brand name, it lists a number of well known and popular brands of gluten free food, then lets you see the most popular products for each brand. There are some similarities in the software used for these two new websites, each is based on the widely used Wordpress blogging platform, and each is heavily customized for gluten free food shopping.

Please feel free to comment here about either or both of these two new gluten free food shopping sites, we appreciate all feedback. We'll keep building new sites if you'll keep stopping by.

Thanks
Steve