Healthcare Professionals
If you’re a healthcare professional involved in diagnosis and management of patients with coeliac disease (CD) this part of the website has been designed for you. It can be used to help you improve the care provided to your patients.
The Power Of A Cereal Grain
It is amazing to think that mere cereal proteins can reek such clinical havoc. People with Coeliac disease develop a gluten sensitive enteropathy of the small bowel (duodenum/jejunum) which causes malabsorption of macro and micro nutrients that can lead to the longer term clinical outcomes.
So what is gluten? Gluten is a catch all phrase for the range of cereal proteins that trigger the enteropathy. These include the wheat protein, gliadin, the rye protein, secalin, the barley protein, hordein and the oat protein, avenin.
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If you’re a healthcare professional involved in diagnosis and management of patients with coeliac disease (CD) this part of the website has been designed for you. It can be used to help you improve the care provided to your patients.
Medical Guidelines
There are a number of useful guidelines available for the diagnosis and management of patients with coeliac disease. However, as most of these guidelines have been developed outside of the Republic of Ireland information relating to financial aid does not apply, please see ‘Financial Support’ section of this website for more information.
Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology (PCSG)
PCSG (2006) produced a set of guidelines for healthcare professionals entitled "The Management of adults with coeliac disease in primary care". The guidelines cover symptoms, treatment and the management of coeliac disease.
Clinical Resource Efficiency Support Team (CREST)
CREST (2006) produced guidelines for the management of coeliac disease entitled "Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of coeliac disease in adults"
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
NICE (2015) published guidelines entitled 'Coeliac Disease Recognition Assessment and Managemen.' These guidelines offer best practice advice on the recognition and assessment of coeliac disease and the care of children and adults who are undergoing the diagnostic process for coeliac disease.
British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)
The BSG (2014) produced guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of adults with coeliac disease entitled BSG guideline for the diagnosis and management of CD in adults