Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 January 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Developing a National Strategy for Coeliac Disease: Discussion
9:30 am
Professor Nicholas Kennedy:
There are a number of things. However, eosinophilic esophagitis is more related to allergy than to auto-immunity. It is a rare thing, but it does happen with increased frequency in coeliacs. It also happens without coeliac disease more often than it happens with coeliac disease. Therefore, I do not see it as being a specific complication of coeliac disease. I am not sure if that answers what the Deputy hoped to get. May I address another question?
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