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It is “Coeliac Awareness Week” |
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Written by Dr Rodney Ford
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 30 May 2008 )
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The sad thing is that most of my medical colleagues are using a dinosaur test to look for gluten harm. They insist that the ONLY evidence of gluten damage is an abnormal small bowel biopsy. This is thinking (or should I say non-thinking!) of the 1970-80 era. A “demarcation dispute” has arisen from a flawed premise. Because coeliac disease had been defined as “tissue damage from gluten”, the flawed logic arose that:
No gut tissue damage = No gluten problem!
This is not based fact or data. It is just based on prejudice. It is nonsense.
I challenge the gastroenterologists and paediatricians to a debate on this.
In my clinical experience, for every one coeliac diagnosed, there are another 10 children suffering from the affects of gluten but who do not have coeliac disease. They have The Gluten Syndrome.
What do you think? Cheers, Dr Rodney Ford.
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