Celiac Disease and Infertility

Dr. Sarah Berga of Emory University on the link between celiac disease and infertility. Berga is Chairman of the Dept. of Gynecology and Obstetrics of Emory University School of Medicine. She spoke at the 2009 Predictive Health Symposium at Emory University.

Related Links
Dept. of Gynecology and Obstetrics
http://www.gynob.emory.edu

Sarah L. Berga, MD
http://www.gynob.emory.edu/faculty/academic_faculty/faculty_profile_sarah_ber...

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Science & Technology

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• celiac disease
• infertility
• fertility
• wheat allergy
• sarah berga
• emory university
• emory healthcare
• emory
• university
• celiac

[FertileHeart]

Very useful! A strict gluten free diet with careful attention to cross contamination in restaurants and manufacturing facilities and gluten in non food products, was helpful to a client who is currently in her third trimester of an uneventful pregnancy. She also worked with specific tools that addressed conflicts linked to motherhood (/what Dr. Berga described in a 2003 study as stress due to behaviour and personality)

Julia Indichova, author of The Fertile Female and Inconceivable

[EmoryUniversity]

Thanks. We're glad you found this helpful. Dr. Berga outlined several similar "conflicts" in this lecture.

[ahhjortshoj]

A correction and a comment:

1) Gluten does not only appear in wheat. It also shows up in rye, and barley, and in oats via cross-contamination.

2) It's irresponsible to not screen for celiac disease in the course of treating patients for infertility. In many instances, one directly causes the other.