Why Do Kids Get Celiac Disease?
No one is sure why celiac disease happens, but it appears to run in families. You have a 5-10% chance of getting celiac disease if someone in your family has it. It’s common in people from the northern European countries and the United States. How common? We think that about one in every 133 people has celiac disease in the United States. Obviously, many people who have celiac disease do not know it. If all these people were diagnosed, celiac disease would be more common than Type 1 diabetes. Fortunately, awareness is growing about the problem, and there are better ways of testing people for it.
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