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aklap
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 Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:18 am Post subject: Dr Gluten - Dr. Rodney Ford of NZ |
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http://www.doctorgluten.com/
I thought many of the Mom's going thru testing might appreciate this...
http://www.doctorgluten.com/articles.htm#Press
Who warrants a gluten-free diet?
| Quote: | Ford, R. P. K.*
rodney@rodneyford.co.nz
www.rodneyford.co.nz
Paediatric gastroenterology and allergy clinic, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Message: Many more children, other than coeliacs, warrant a gluten-free diet.
Conventionally, medical practitioners have only recommended a gluten-free diet for children with coeliac disease. Doctor Rodney Ford challenges this.
He did an audit of all the children who were referred to him for investigation of coeliac disease (during 2001-2005). Doctor Rodney Ford runs a gastroenterology and allergy clinic, Christchurch, New Zealand.
This group of children all had evidence of an immunological reaction to gluten – they had positive blood tests for IgG-gliadin antibody. Also, they all had an endoscopy to obtain a piece of bowel tissue (a small bowel biopsy).
Finally, they had blood tests to look for evidence of tissue damage (tissue transglutaminase (tTG) or endomesial antibody (EMA))
The novel part of this study was that all of these children with elevated IgG-gliadin antibodies were offered a gluten-free diet, whatever the small bowel histology appearance.
Results: There were 190 children. There were 96 males and 94 females. Their average age was 5.3 years. These children were divided into three groups depending on their test results:
1) 31 (16%) had a histology diagnosis of coeliac disease;
2) 31 (16%) were deemed possible coeliacs because of elevated tTG or EMA antibodies (they had normal small bowel histology);
3) The majority, 128 (67%), did not have any supportive evidence of coeliac disease – they were labelled "not-coeliacs.
The clinical and demographic features were similar across these three groups. Therefore, these groups could not be distinguished from each other by their symptoms.
Of the 128 not-coeliacs, 81 (76%) reported substantial clinical improvements on a gluten-free diet within three months. Of the remaining 47: 31 did not try a gluten-free diet, and 8 reported no benefit.
If the response was measured for only those who tried a gluten-free diet, then 89/97 (92%) of the not-coeliacs got better on a gluten-free diet!
Conclusions: Many children have symptoms that are consistent with coeliac disease. However, most have normal small bowel histology and no evidence of gut damage (normal tTG or EMA results). But they usually have high IgG-gliadin antibody levels.
Notably, these children responded very well to a gluten-free diet, with the great majority improving. – these children are "gluten-sensitive".
This audit shows that IgG-gliadin is a valuable test to detect these children.
Many more children, other than coeliacs, warrant a gluten-free diet. |
Thanks Kim for finding this!!
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aklap
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Bump for Petacrane. I know it's NZ, but there might be something of use in there for you
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Eeyorific
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Thanks for bumping this Al, this was my 1st time reading it. It seems, that this is exactly where my Matthew rates. I'll have to share this with dh.
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aklap
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bump for our friends Down Under.
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aklap
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bump for those looking into Non Celiac Gluten Sensitivity.
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aklap
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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To add Dr. Gluten's Blog to 1st post.
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aklap
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Bump. Dr. Ford is another Doc that feels Non Celiac Gluten Sensitivity exists.
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bump
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bump for Corgi
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