In 1994 I was diagnosed with celiac disease, which led me to create Celiac.com in 1995. I created this site for a single purpose: To help as many people as possible with celiac disease get diagnosed and living happy, healthy gluten-free lives. Celiac.com was the first site on the Internet dedicated solely to celiac disease, and since then it has become an invaluable resource to people worldwide who seek information about celiac disease and the gluten-free diet. In 1998 I created The Gluten-Free Mall, Your Special Diet Superstore! which was also another Internet first—it was the first gluten-free food site to offer a shopping cart-style interface, and the ability for people to order gluten-free products manufactured by many different companies at a single Web site.
Sites by National Support Organizations
The
Celiac Disease Foundation (USA):
http://www.celiac.org/
The
Celiac Sprue Association (USA):
http://www.csaceliacs.org
The
Gluten Intolerance Group of North America (USA):
http://www.gluten.net/
Canadian Celiac Association:
http://www.celiac.ca/
The Coeliac Society of Ireland:
http://www.coeliac.ie/
Association of European Coeliac Societies
(AOECS)
http://www.aoecs.org
The Coeliac Society of Australia
http://www.coeliac.org.au
Celiac Research Centers
University
of Maryland Center for Celiac Research Center for Celiac Research:
http://www.celiaccenter.org/
The Mayo Clinic has a good section on celiac disease on their site:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/celiac-disease/index.html
Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University:
http://www.celiacdiseasecenter.columbia.edu/CF-HOME.htm
The University of Chicago Hospitals Celiac
Disease Progam
http://www.uchospitals.edu/specialties/celiac/index.html
William K. Warren Medical Research - Center
for Celiac Disease
http://celiaccenter.ucsd.edu/index.html
Medical Journal Articles
Dr.
Joseph Murray of the Mayo Clinic has written an excellent general
article about celiac disease (recommended reading for all -
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 69, No. 3, 354-365,
March 1999):
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/69/3/354
Dr.
Harold Pruessner has written an excellent article about celiac
disease titled Detecting Celiac Disease in Your Patients
(American Family Physician, March 1, 1998/Volume 57, Number
5):
http://www.aafp.org/afp/980301ap/pruessn.html
Conleth
Feighery, Professor (Department of Immunology, St Jamess Hospital,
Dublin 8, Ireland) has written an excellent general article
titled Coeliac
Disease (BMJ 1999;319:236-239 - 24 July):
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7204/236
Another great article by M. Hadjivassiliou,
et. al., discusses the broad range of symptoms celiac disease can present,
and what its effects can be - Gluten Sensitivity: A Many Headed Hydra.
Heightened Responsiveness To Gluten Is Not Confined To The Gut. (BMJ
1999;318:1710-1711 - 26 June):
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7200/1710
Sites by Individuals
The
collected writings of Dr. Reichelt contain papers on the connection
between Mental Disease, Autism, Allergies, etc., and Celiac
Disease:
http://www.gluten-free.org/reichelt.html
The collected writings of Ron Hoggan contain papers on many a large variety of disorders that are related to and Celiac Disease: http://www.panix.com/~donwiss/hoggan/
Don
Wiss has created a comprehensive collection of celiac disease
links:
http://www.panix.com/~donwiss/
Danna
Korn will soon open a site for kids with celiac disease at:
http://www.celiackids.com/
Autism
Network for Dietary Intervention by Lisa Lewis and Karyn Seroussi:
http://www.autismndi.com/
The Dermatitis Herpetiformis Online Community:
http://www.dermatitisherpetiformis.org.uk
The Gluten File
http://jccglutenfree.googlepages.com
Notes, Links, and Essays on Gluten Intolerance
& Celiac Disease by Harold Kraus
http://www.members.cox.net/harold.kraus/gluten.htm#_Disclaimer
Dr. Rodney Ford - The Food Doctor
http://www.thefooddoctor.org/FoodDoctor/RodneyFord.html
Dr. Scott Lewey - the food doc
http://www.thefooddoc.com
Recipe, Food & Drug Sites
These sites provides gluten-free
restaurant cards in many different languages including: Chinese,
Dutch, English, German, French, Italian, Turkish and Spanish:
http://members.aol.com/zoeliak
http://www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/basic.html#cards
http://www.sci.fi/~keliakia/tiedote/kielet.htm
The
USDA has a searchable nutrient database at:
http://www.rahul.net/cgi-bin/fatfree/usda/usda.cgi
Food
and Drug Administration - Information about nutrition and drugs
from the FDA:
http://www.fda.gov/
The CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION has a web
site where you can find more information about the organization and its
procedures:
http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp
The Codex Standard for Gluten-Free Foods:
http://www.codexalimentarius.net/download/standards/291/CXS_118e.pdf
Food Allergy Survivors Together (FAST)
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/FAST/
Healing Foods Reference Database
http://www.healingfoodreference.com
International Food Information Council (IFIC)
- Food Ingredients, Colors, Additives
http://ific.org/publications/brochures/foodingredandcolorsbroch.cfm
Pictures of Dermatitis Herpetiformis
The following are links to sites have of DH. Some of the photos are biopsies as seen through a microscope, and some are regular photographs of people with DH, some of which are quite graphic.
Pictures and an excellent article on DH by Harold T. Pruessner, M.D., University of Texas Medical School at Houston:http://www.aafp.org/afp/980301ap/pruessn.html
The
University of Iowa:
http://tray.dermatology.uiowa.edu/DPT/Hist/DH-H-01.jpg
http://tray.dermatology.uiowa.edu/DPT/Hist/DH-DIF-01.jpg
The
Gastrolab Image Gallery:
http://www.gastrolab.net/ng016.htm
Dept. of Dermatology - University of Iowa
College of Medicine:
http://tray.dermatology.uiowa.edu/DH-001.htm
http://tray.dermatology.uiowa.edu/DH-002.htm
Pictures of Celiac Disease Biopsies
The
University of Utah:
http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/GIHTML/GI152.html