"Doc I think I am allergic to gluten. I stopped eating wheat and dairy products last month. Now I feel much better. Can you test me to gluten?"
More than a few times a year a patient or parent asks about gluten allergy and whether I can do skin testing to diagnose it. Actually, "gluten allergy" is a misnomer (the wrong name for this disorder).
Gluten hypersensitivity is an auto-immune disease that results from eating foods that contain wheat, rye barley and in some cases, oat. People...
I was invited to attend a gluten-free cooking event hosted by the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University and held at Cooking by the... Read more »
Entire grocery aisles are devoted to it, restaurants have separate menus for it, and the media is abuzz about it these days. Being... Read more »
Reprinted with permission from Amy Tenderich of www.diabetesmine.com. Somehow the word has spread accross the Web that I am not only... Read more »
Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease which can cause skin inflammation, itching and pain. Psoriasis is one of the most common types of... Read more »
Gluten Intolerance (Celiac Disease) after Weight-Loss Surgery During my recent colonoscopy, the gastroenterologist found celiac sprue in... Read more »
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