You can read on Celiac.com five simple questions can help you determine if your child needs a gluten-free diet, according to the a recent Danish study that aims to improve celiac disease diagnosis in children.

Gastroenterology Service Children Hospital Dr. Orlando Alassia of our city was involved, along with other health facilities in other provinces-the first multicenter study was conducted in the country on celiac disease, which allowed to obtain data on the prevalence of this pathology in children younger than 16 years.

Of the 2219 samples were included in the study, for children between 3 and 16 years, 430 were contributed by the Alassia. "We did a check on blood samples from patients who entered the operating room, and above this, was analyzed with a determination of transglutaminase. All determinations were centralized in a laboratory in Buenos Aires. Of all the samples yielded the following results: 29 were positive (although 7 patients had previous diagnosis, why did not need to ask bowel biopsy). Of these samples were 22 biopsies in patients. We found a prevalence of 1.26%, ie 1 in 79, with a predominance of females, "said the professional.

And he stressed: "This is a before and after: no country in the determination of prevalence of celiac disease. Data are completely different in Latin America and also in the rest of the world. "

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A long list of nerve and brain disorders has been associated with gluten sensitivity. These include: wobbly walking (cerebella ataxia), muscle weakness, slow development, learning problems, attention deficit disorder (ADD), depression, lethargy, migraine and headache. Medical research has shown that these problems can be triggered by gluten and occur in people who do not have coeliac disease. Read the original article.

I would like to recommend to all the parents of autistic children this website: www.generationrescue.org. "Generation Rescue is an international movement of scientists, physicians and parent-volunteers researching the causes and treatments for autism and mentoring thousands of families in recovering their children from autism"

In nutrition we all know that we need diversity, that we have to eat food that give us carbohydrates, proteins, calcium, vitamins, fibre, etc. So in order to acquire the carbohydrates we eat cereals: bread, pasta, pizzas, biscuits,… but, do you have ever thought that all that is based on the same cereal: wheat?

This is an English translation of the article published in French by WordPress : « Autisme, schizophrénie et hyperactivité- Phosphates dans l’alimentation : les enfants poussés au bord de la folie »  Mondialisation.ca, 1 fevrier 2008 Word Press.

Since twenty years ago, the hyperactivity, schizophrenia and autism cases are dramatically raising in developed countries. Scientists from the entire world are studying this problem. All of them agree in the link between the gluten and casein allergies and toxic metals.

In only ten years the number of autism in USA has been multiplied by three. There’s really an “epidemy” of autism that is expanding to the other side of the Atlantic. In Maryland, for example, the official stats show an increasing of 500% of new cases since 1998.

photo by Kriss Szkurlatowski

Our children often complain about their stomach ache, but we don’t use to pay too much attention. In this article I explain my experience with my daughter’s frequently complaints and how they disappeared.

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