Description
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that affects nearly one in every hundred people. Unfortunately, 97 percent remain undiagnosed and untreated. They continue to suffer from gastrointestinal complaints, fatigue, headaches, joint pain, anemia, and itchy skin conditions -- to name just a few of the symptoms. These people consult numerous doctors, who prescribe drugs and diets that may alleviate some symptoms, but rarely work for long.

If you are one of these people, the real answer to your medical problems may lie in this book.

Celiac disease is a hereditary condition that damages the lining of the small intestine so that it cannot properly absorb the food that you eat. Without essential vitamins, minerals, and nutrition, the entire body begins to suffer. Because of its autoimmune nature it also sets off reactions that reverberate throughout all the organs of the body. This is a disease that you do not outgrow -- it often returns years later with more significant symptoms.

The true medical impact of celiac disease is just beginning to emerge. This is the first authoritative guide on how the condition is properly diagnosed, treated, and managed. It examines the latest research into its many manifestations, with chapters devoted to each complication and to related diseases. These include infertility, other autoimmune conditions (for example, type 1 diabetes and thyroid disease), peripheral neuropathy, liver disease, and even cancer. It also devotes an entire section to coping with the psychological aspects of a chronic illness and the gluten-free diet.

This "inside-out" examination and explanation of the disease is a must-read for bothpatients and the medical community.

Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 006076693X
ISBN-13: 9780060766931
Format: Hardcover, 334 pp
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pub date: 2006

Content
Acknowledgments
A Note from the Authors
Introduction: What’s Wrong with Me?
Part I. Is The Food You Eat Eating You?
1. Normal Digestion
2. The Digestion Tract in Flames: Celiac Disease
3. How Does Celiac Disease Affect You?
4. How Do I Know if I Have It? The Diagnosis of Celiac Disease
5. Differential Diagnosis: Why is Celiac Disease Underdiagnosed?
6. Why Do People Get Celiac Disease?
Part II. Related Conditions and Complications
7. Neurological Manifestations
8. Malignancy
9. Osteoporosis
10. Depression
11. Dermatitis Herpetiformis and Other Skin Diseases
12. Diabetes
13. Infertility
14. Autoimmune and Other Related Conditions
Part III. Understanding and Treating Celiac Disease, Medical Management
15. What You Need to Know—and Do—After Diagnosis
16. Why Symptoms Persist—I’m on the Diet and Not Getting Better
17. Follow-Up Testing
Part IV. The Diet: Do You Eat to Live or Live to Eat?
18. What Living Gluten-Free Really Means
19. Reading Labels
20. Cooking Without Gluten
21. Eating in the Real World
22. Family Occasions
23. The Medicine Cabinet and Cosmetics
24. Eating Naked
Part V. Living With
25. Dealing with Children and Young Adults Who Have Celiac Disease
26. Adults: Coping with Change
27. Research: Finding a Cure
28. Myths and Unexplored Areas
Appendix A: A Guide to Ingredients
Appendix B: Explanation of Grains
Appendix C: Books and Articles of Interest
Appendix D: Medical Contact Information
Appendix E: National Support Groups
Appendix F: Publications and Resources
Glossary
Index

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
3040 Food consumption, fluid balance
3050 Feeding, swallowing, dentition
5220 Gastrointestinal disorders
5210 Dysphagia
5460 Self-care management