I always wondered if this was true.  Always hearing stories of my parents telling other friends and family members how bad I had colic as a baby.  A few of the stories were as bad as throwing me out the window… as you can see that never happened.   Those who have a colic child know the screams and cries just too well and sometimes these children like myself can have it for years as a child.  If you knew you could stop your child from hurting wouldn’t you get a blood test done.  A simple question to your family doctor by asking to test your child for celiac or (gluten intolerant) can save both you and your child a lot of heartaches for both present and future.

Take a look at Jacquelyn Askew’s hypothesis.  If individuals diagnosed with colic as infants have a high diagnoses rate for celiac disease, then doctors should recognize colic as a precursor to celiac disease and thus test for celiac disease in these infants.

To partake in the survey please click here and you will be sent to her questionnaire.  The survey involves answering six questions and will only take a few minutes to complete. and requires no names, it is completely anonymous.   If you are providing information for multiple individuals (self, children, or others), please complete a separate survey for each.  The survey is part of Jacquelyn Askew’s science project.  Her acknowledgements are vast and  full of medical Doctors.  To view her abstract between the correlation of celiac disease and colic click here.

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