Finding Medical Care for Celiac Disease

If you need to find a doctor who's familiar with the diagnosis and management of patients with celiac disease, you have several options.

These hospitals all have units specifically dedicated to treating patients with celiac disease. If you are looking for a doctor with special expertise in celiac disease but you don't live near one of these hospitals, you can still call them for advice.

Some doctors don't know when to suspect celiac disease. Here are three good review articles about celiac disease, from respected medical journals, that you can print out and give to your doctor.

Are you gluten free? Nutritionist consultation is very important; here's where to find one and how to raise the odds your insurance will pay.

These resources should only be starting points for investigating the gluten-free status of medications. There is no substitute for checking with the manufacturer directly.

There are a lot of web sites with medical information on the internet: some very good, and some dangerously bad. Before you decide a site is reliable, go through the following steps.