Asthma Questionnaire

The link between celiac disease and asthma has been difficult to prove that to find the reason for celiac disease exists. However, some evidence (statistical relationships) were found.

Most articles suggest that there is no link between celiac disease and asthma, while anecdotal evidence suggests that celiac their asthma is increasing dramatically after the ingestion of all foods without gluten.

For example, an article by Dr. Pradeep Bhandari (Ref 1) provides that "celiac disease and asthma tend to run in families and tend to get these diseases is genetically inherited. However, they are not interrelated. The tendency to celiac disease is transmitted genetically. It primarily affects people of European descent. It is also more common in families with diabetes or rheumatoid arthritis. Something in the environment is needed to trigger celiac disease in those susceptible. Asthma tends to run in families. Someone with a parent who suffers from asthma is three to six times more likely to develop asthma than someone who does not have a parent with asthma. But not a single gene is responsible for asthma. Instead, you can inherit a general predisposition to asthma "Ref 1

However, a 2005 study was conducted on a population of 86 persons residing in the Maltese islands in the Mediterranean does suggest a certain correlation:

Search Malta 2005 (Ref 2: Ellul P, Vassallo M, S Montfort)

"Patients previously diagnosed to have CD (based on serology and duodenal biopsy) and attend an outpatient clinic answered a questionnaire designed to determine whether they had ever been diagnosed with asthma or allergic rhinitis." Ref 2

"The 86 patients (aged 16-69 [median 43] years, 65 women) responded to the questionnaire on CD and asthma. They constitute 21% of the 409 patients with CD in the Maltese islands included in a register kept check the prescription gluten free food. "Ref 2

Of 86 respondents, 24 (27.8%, including 21 women) had asthma, 22 with asthma and 2 with previously undiagnosed asthma, the incidence of asthma in patients with CD was more higher than that reported in the Maltese general population (11.1%, p <0.00005). [7] In addition, four non-asthmatic patients (one smoker, two ex-smokers, a non-smoker) reported wheezing in the absence of respiratory infection in the past, they were nevertheless tests normal lung function.

In 16 patients, asthma preceded CD 3 months to 39 years (median 20 years). Among these patients, a gluten-free diet has resulted in improved asthma in 6 patients, the potential improvement in 2 patients, and no change in 8 patients. In the other 8 patients, asthma followed CDs 2-14 years (median 8). Thirty-one of 86 patients with CD and 11 of 24 patients with Crohn's and asthma have a family history of asthma in first degree relatives.

Eighty-two patients (62 women) responded to the questionnaire about allergic rhinitis. Of these, 36 (44%) suffered from allergic rhinitis, the incidence was higher than that reported in the Maltese general population (32.3%, p <0.05). They conclude that their results suggest as asthma and allergic rhinitis are more common in CD patients than in the general population in Malta. In patients with atopic diseases, the index of suspicion for CD should be high.

Finnish study in 2001 (Ref 3: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology)

This study tested the assumption whether TH1 and TH2 cells can co-exist. A correlation between these suggests a correlation between celiac disease and asthma.

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