Celiac Vaccine Australia: Melbourne Vaccine Trial

Gluten Free Australia > Celiac Vaccine Australia.

This month a phase one clinical trial for the experimental celiac vaccine will be trialed in Melbourne Australia. This Trial is testing an effective clinical treatment for coeliac disease or gluten intolerance.

"The vaccine itself is intended to gradually desensitize the coeliac sufferer, so that gluten is tolerated. Consequently, the villi in the small intestine should revive and absorb nutrients in the normal way. Ideally, that would mean the end of gluten-free diets for people with coeliac." - Dr Bob Anderson

Dr Bob Anderson hopes to develop the vaccine and public awareness of it and banish a strict gluten free diet to be a thing of the past... which sounds great to me. This could mean a whole range of healthy issues which are caused by the disease, especially for those who go undiagnosed would be less likely or non exisitant.

40 Volunteers with celiac disease will initially be trialed if this is successful phase two will be rolled out testing the clinical effectiveness of the drug.

Read more in this article Vaccine trial flags challenge to celiac disease