What is it with Gluten?
Lately I have been diagnosing more and more Coeliac Disease in my patients. Whilst bowel symptoms are the commonest presentation,many patients simply present with fatigue or thinning hair and eyebrows and other less known symptoms. According to Coeliac New Zealand, upto 80% of people may not be aware they have Coeliac disease. The current rate in New Zealand is 1 person in 70, and this has mushroomed from the 1960's when the incidence was 1 in 8000. A study in Finland in 200