Published in:
30-05-2022 | Celiac Disease | Editorial
Dating While Gluten-Free—Don’t Kiss and Don’t Tell?
Authors:
Javier A. Villafuerte-Gálvez, Jocelyn A. Silvester
Published in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Issue 11/2022
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Excerpt
Celiac disease (CeD) is the sole autoimmune disease with an identified antigen (gluten). A lifelong breakup with gluten—a.k.a. “gluten-free diet” (GFD)—is currently the only known effective treatment, and breaking up is hard to do. Gluten’s ubiquity necessitates sustained daily investment of cognitive, physical, monetary, and emotional resources from patients with CeD. When dining out, this often entails explaining a gluten-free diet to wait staff while enquiring about the details of food preparation. The perceived treatment burden of CeD has been estimated to be comparable to that of diabetes, congestive heart failure, or renal failure requiring dialysis [
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