CC and Celiac Disease

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CC and Celiac Disease

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CONCLUSIONS: This study indicates that collagenous colitis may be the presenting clinical and pathologic feature of celiac disease. Diagnosis of collagenous colitis should lead the clinician to consider exclusion of underlying occult celiac disease.
Article found here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1531 ... d_RVDocSum

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Interesting article.

Earlier studies have shown that approximately 15 % of LC patients also have celiac disease. The problem with the conclusion of this study, (that collagenous colitis may be the presenting clinical and pathologic feature of celiac disease), is that the GF diet will not resolve all symptoms for all CC and LC patients, nor will it normalize colonic biopsies for all of them, (though it will indeed normalize the small intestinal biopsies for all of them). Obviously, though, a connection of some type certainly does exist.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11246349

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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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