Study Claims No Link between Autism and Celiac Disease

I did found my asymptomatic child had celiac disease because I read in a book that many autistic kids did have it, I am very fortunate to have a husband and a great doctor that agree to test him on that.

I thought exactly the same thing - that the study was a bit of a travesty. The small numbers combined with the misleading statement 'no more likely to develop celiac disease' (obviously we don't know if any of those children wouldn't develop celiac later in life) And yet all the mags ran this as being the final word - terrible -

It's also important to note -

IgG antibodies in mother (in utero) seem to have an impact for at least one form of autism...

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'...exposure to abnormal immune system factors during pregnancy with specific behavioral outcomes in offpsring.'

This is something I kind of guessed given a few eg.s - so it's good to see that some research is being done.

I thought exactly the same thing - that the study was a bit of a travesty. The small numbers combined with the misleading statement 'no more likely to develop celiac disease' (obviously we don't know if any of those children wouldn't develop celiac later in life) And yet all the mags ran this as being the final word - terrible -

It's also important to note -

IgG antibodies in mother (in utero) seem to have an impact for at least one form of autism...

Open Original Shared Link

'...exposure to abnormal immune system factors during pregnancy with specific behavioral outcomes in offpsring.'

 

This is something I kind of guessed given a few eg.s - so it's good to see that some research is being done.

The connection between Celiac disease and Autism is simple. Kids that have both problems need only one cure. No more wheat. It is simple to conclude that Autism can also be caused by a food allergy.

The connection between Celiac disease and Autism is simple. Those kids that have both conditions (like my son) only need one cure. No more wheat. It is easy to conclude that even if most kids don't get both conditions that they could still have the same cause, food allergies.

This study is just too small, but it does look as though autistic children probably have an incidence of celiac disease no higher or only a little higher than normal. Celiac disease I think affects women more, and autism affects boys around four times more, so these are difficult to comparisons. Gluten sensitivity is another matter. We need that researched. Celiac disease, and undiagnosed celiac disease in mothers - that's another issue, that does seem to be important.