How can you find out if YOUR child should be tested for celiac disease?
WebMD Health News recently published a questionnaire that you can use to find out if your child has celiac disease and needs to be put on a gluten-free diet. According to the article, at least half of children with celiac disease NEVER get diagnosed, leaving them suffering from the painful physical and mental symptoms of the disease.
Instead of indiscriminately administering a blood test to kids, now we can narrow down the children who need to be tested by asking them five questions:
1. Has your child ever suffered from abdominal pain more than twice during the last three months?
2. Has your child ever had diarrhea lasting more than two weeks?
3. Does your child have a tendency to firm and hard stools?
4. Does your child gain enough weight?
5. Does your child gain enough height?
Check out the link below!
Tina Turbin
www.GlutenFreeHelp.info
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Thanks, Tina, for this. My sons aren’t celiac, but I know a lot about the disease because of my sister, so it’s always nice to know this information in case I need to share it with others whose children may have the disease. You never know when you’ll need information like this!
Thankfully all these questions are no!
GREAT resource–thanks!
Hi, Tina. This is a great post. I’ve heard you talk about celiac disease before a lot, and I was always like, “Ah! Could my daughter have it?” This is a good tool to have.
Thanks for sharing this. I hope to see celiac diagnosis among children improve thanks to tools such as this questionnaire.
Thanks Tina. I’m new to this blog and I have a celiac five-year-old daughter. I really appreciate how much you talk about CD, since it affects so many people and most of them have no idea.
Thanks for this post. Wish I had had this information sooner!
A very cool tool!