Summary:
The Royal Society of Medicine Your Guide to Coeliac Disease is the patient's ultimate tool to understanding their illness, discovering invaluable advice, and empowering them to make informed choices and to regain control of their life.
Written by the top UK expert in this field, in conjunction with an expert dietician, this is an easy-to-read guide to coeliac disease, the symptoms, the treatment available, and ultimately how to overcome this misunderstood yet common illness. The book opens by explaining how to recognise the disease, where it comes from, and who else in your family might get it. It then goes on to detail diagnosis, management and most importantly taking control.
A section on who you might meet in the NHS and their role in the treatment of your illness gives you a greater understanding of what you might expect and who might be involved.
A friendly and straightforward guide, this book gives you an essential understanding of coeliac disease and its dietary requirements and will inform, reassure and support you, when you need it the most.

• Coeliac Disease is now known to affect at least 1 in 100 people
• Written by Peter Howdle, it also features advice from a leading dietician on who to manage a gluten-free diet
• Series edited by Royal Society of Medicine, giving it authority and recognition.
• Includes features that use a direct, personal style of writing – Myth/fact boxes, 'My experience' features, Key terms, Q & A boxes.
• Covers every aspect of the illness, the only and ultimate tool that a patient or carer will need, to read and refer to throughout the illness.

Table of Contents:
Introduction:
The normal gut and the coeliac gut – what is abnormal?
Who gets coeliac disease and how is it caused?
The clinical features of coeliac disease
How is coeliac disease diagnosed?
Management of coeliac disease
Taking control
Further help
Glossary
Index

About the Author(s):
Professor Peter Howdle is Head of General Surgery, Medicine and Anaesthesia Unit and Consultant Gastroenterologist at St James's University Hospital
He is author of several books and many academic papers, and is a member of a number of professional societies and academic and advisory boards.
He is a media consultant for coeliac disease and his comments have appeared on the national media and elsewhere; he is also an advisor to the medical board of key charity Coeliac UK

Readership:
Suffers from coeliac disease/gluten intolerance