Gluten-free diet: Managing in school
A 504 plan can help children with celiac disease on a gluten-free diet participate more safely in school and school-related activities.
Gluten: Preventing cross-contact
When you have celiac disease, it is important to avoid cross-contact with gluten in food while at home and dining out.
Gluten-free diet: Dining out and traveling
For people with celiac disease, it is essential to avoid gluten in foods and beverages even while dining out and traveling.
Iron in GI conditions
A normal iron level is important to make healthy red blood cells and to help support your quality of life with digestive conditions.
Ostomy
An ostomy is an opening in your stomach that is made by surgery to let solid or liquid waste leave your body.
Iron deficiency anemia
Iron deficiency anemia is the most common type of anemia that happens when you don’t have enough iron to make healthy red blood cells.
Endoscopia (GI superior)
La endoscopia digestiva superior es un procedimiento para ver el tracto digestivo superior, que incluye el esófago, el estómago y el principio del intestino delgado.
Colonoscopy
A colonoscopy is a procedure performed by a doctor called a gastroenterologist, who uses a colonoscope to look inside the colon and check for diseases like cancer or colitis.
Gluten-free diet: nutritional value
A nutritious gluten-free diet can help correct and prevent nutrient deficiencies that may occur in celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity.
Gluten: reading a label
For people with celiac disease, knowing how to read ingredient labels is essential to avoid gluten in foods, beverages and medicines.