title: [Gluten-free diet for children].
abstract: Children with celiac disease do not share the same risks as adults, and should have an adapted diet and a prolonged follow-up until adulthood. The following indications seem reasonable: in symptomatic children and adults, gluten free diet during several years in children and for the entire life in adults; in children becoming "silent", without any clinical or biological signs of malnutrition, discussion of coming back to normal diet, under the condition a strict follow-up and restarting gluten free diet at age of 25 and/or in case of pregnancy, to prevent the complications of celiac disease in adulthood; prolonged follow-up for adolescents and young adults returned to a "latent" disease.
authors: Service de Gastroentérologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital des Enfants-Malades, 149 rue de Sèvres, 75743 Paris cedex, France. jacques.schmitz@nck.ap-hop-paris.fr
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Schmitz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D002446:Celiac Disease / Q000178:diet therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D002648:Child; D055050:Diet, Gluten-Free; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy