Celiac Disease in Children and its Homoeopathic Management
Keywords:
children, medicine, diagnosisAbstract
Celiac disease (CD) is an auto immune disease affecting the small intestine in the genetically susceptible individuals. It is induced by gluten proteins present in wheat, barley, and rye. Until late 1970s CD was considered to be rare, and the prevalence was estimated to be as low as 0.03% worldwide.1Recently a cross sectional study has been conducted to estimate the prevalence of celiac disease in urban and rural populations in the National Capital Region, Delhi, India. Door-to-door visits were done with a questionnaire to screen for features of celiac disease, namely chronic or recurrent diarrhea and, anemia. Based on screening, 5622 (53.6%) participants were found positive. The overall sero-prevalence of celiac disease was 1.44% and the overall prevalence of celiac disease was 1.04%.2In another study done in Ludhiana district of Punjab out of 198 suspected positive children 21 children were tested positive for anti-tTG assay.3For the celiac disease there is no much scope in the conventional medicines. Once the diagnosis has been confirmed conventional medicine of system advices to live on gluten-free diet. It is often very difficult
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