Advises maintaining a gluten-free diet until after puberty for children with coeliac disease.
May support gluten-free diet until after puberty in pediatric coeliac disease; leaves open confirmation in prospective trials.
COELIAC DISEASE IN CHILDHOODEDICABLJOURNkL criteria, it is advised that the gluten-free diet should as a rule be maintained till after puberty, although temporary relaxation of the diet may be allowed to adolescents for personal and social reasons.I am grateful to my colleagues Dr. 0. H. Wolff and Dr. B. D. Bower, who have allowed me to include some of their patients in this report.Dr. J. M. French and the late Mr. Harold Salt were responsible for the estimates of fat, and Miss S. Littlejohn for the D-xylose excretion tests.
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