FIND

Diagnosis still takes 10 years on average for over a third of respondents because:

• The lack of clinical practice guidelines creates inconsistency in diagnosis and care, especially for those with lower incomes.
• People present differently, increasingly with neurological and mental health symptoms.
• Delays in biopsies to confirm CD.

TREAT

The gluten-free diet is expensive, and many can’t afford it.

The gluten-free diet is not enough – people still experience symptoms and complications.

People in hospital, assisted care or visiting food banks do not have regular access to safe food.

Unresolved precautionary labelling and unregulated food service menus confuse people and reduce options for safe food.

Safe food when traveling and eating out are major concerns.

CURE

Celiac Canada advocates these solutions:

Clinical Practice Guidelines to improve screening, diagnosis and management.

Improve affordability of the GF diet with a flat tax credit to replace the current tax regime.

Regulatory changes to improve access to safe food in institutional care and food service industry, especially to protect those who cannot self-advocate.

More funding for research to investigate the impact of CD & treatment options beyond the GF diet.

We’re on a mission.