Celiac Disease Research Paper

According to The University of Chicago Medicine Celiac Disease Center “Celiac disease affects 1% of healthy, average Americans. That means at least 3 million people in our country are living with celiac disease—97% of them are undiagnosed.” This can be alarming to some people who are not aware of the diseases presence in America. Celiac disease is a rapidly growing disease that more people are being diagnosed with, and a larger amount of people are aware of it. Celiac disease should have more recognition because it is becoming a more widely known disease and people should be educated on what it is and how it can affect the body.

Celiac disease is not something you hear every day but it's a huge issue in children and adults today. Celiac disease

There are two main ways to get screened for celiac disease, both of which you need to be on a gluten containing diet, for testing to be accurate. One of those is “a gastric tissue biopsy and culture [which] are laboratory tests that exam and stomach tissue” (Pietrangelo & Biggers, MD, 2017). As well as a blood test that detects certain antibodies that are found in high levels in people with celiac disease” (Celiac Disease Foundation, 2018). This helps those who think they might have celiac disease figure out which test will be best for them. There is only one known way to treat celiac disease. According to Mayo Clinic “a strict, lifelong gluten free diet is the only way to manage celiac disease” (Mayo Clinic, 2018). This suggests that going gluten-free after being screened for celiac disease and the tests coming back positive will greatly improve your symptoms. Even though there is only one treatment found for celiac disease there are researchers working to develop a more permanent cure for the disease, however are greatly struggling to do so. As stated by the Celiac Disease Foundation (Celiac Disease Foundation, 2018) “Celiac disease research has produced only a single approved treatment for the disease – the gluten-free diet, to cure celiac disease, however, we must fundamentally shift how celiac disease research is conceptualized and conducted. Celiac disease researchers have been denied the adequate resources needed to understand the basic biochemistry of the disease, much less cure it.” (Celiac Disease Foundation, 2016). This shows that while there are researchers who want to find a cure for celiac disease there isn’t always the proper resources to accomplish what is needed and there should be a more prominent area dedicated to researching this disease. As doctors have done the research that they are available to