Celiac.com 01/26/2017 - The only currently effective therapy for celiac disease is for patients to follow a gluten-free diet. However, no serum marker for gluten intake has yet been found, so it's not always easy for doctors to tell if patients are following their diets properly.
A team of researchers recently set out to evaluate the use of alkylresorcinol concentrations for detecting dietary gluten intake in humans and mice.
The research team included R. S. Choung, J. A. Murray, E. V. Marietta, C. T. Van Dyke, and A. B. Ross. They are variously affiliated with the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA, and with the Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
For their study,...

Celiac.com 09/10/2018 - Anyone diagnosed with celiac disease needs to eat a gluten-free diet if they hope to see their condition improve, and not lead to worse outcomes. So, how much gluten exposure do celiacs get on a gluten-free diet?
William F. Balistreri, MD, Director Emeritus, Pediatric Liver Care Center; Medical Director Emeritus, Liver Transplantation at Cincinnati Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio presented data at this year's Digestive Disease Week that focused on the challenges celiac patients face in trying to follow a gluten-free diet. 
Gluten-free standards and labels help improve awareness, but even so, eating gluten-free can be a challenge. Anyone with celiac disease can tell you that the chances of accidental gluten contamination are many, and that consent ...

Celiac.com 11/19/2018 - People with celiac disease cannot reliably determine whether they ate gluten or not based on symptoms, however severe those symptoms may be, according to research presented by Amanda K. Cartee, MD, of the Mayo Clinic, and her colleagues, at the American College of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
Because there is presently no FDA-approved test to confirm gluten exposure, celiac patients commonly rely on the presence or absence of gastrointestinal or other symptoms as an indicator of gluten exposure. But how reliable is that method? Not very reliable at all, says Dr. Cartee.
Now, the study was small, but it was also rigorous. Dr. Cartee and her associates developed a double-blind, placebo-controlled gluten challenge to identify the rapid ...

Celiac.com 02/24/2020 - Low FODMAP gluten and sham challenges show that nausea and vomiting after a meal are key signs of acute gluten ingestion, and reflect an active immune reaction in celiac patients who are otherwise following a gluten-free diet.
This became clear recently after a team of researchers set out to establish acute gluten-specific symptoms linked to immune activation in celiac disease.
The research team included A. James M. Daveson; Jason A. Tye-Din; Gautam Goel; Kaela E. Goldstein; Holly L. Hand; Kristin M. Neff; Leslie J. Williams; Kenneth E. Truitt; and Robert P. Anderson.
They are variously affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia; the Immunology Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute...