Life with celiac disease

Autor: Michaela Doubková Institution: Charles University in Prague Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove, Department of Social Medicine Division of Nursing Title: Life with celiac disease Supervisor: Mgr. Veronika Gigalová Number of pages: 108 Number of attachments: 5 Year of defense: 2018 Keywords: celiac disease, gluten-free diet, gluten, economical aspects, being on a gluten-free diet The bachelor thesis deals with the celiac disease and a gluten-free diet. The theoretical part focuses not only on symptoms, diagnostics and therapy but also on the availability of gluten- free foods in the place of residence, it shows its financial demanding character and possibilities of gaining allowance from health insurance companies. This thesis sets itself a goal to show difficulties which are brought to a carrier with the celiac disease and what are the everyday pitfalls in lives of coeliacs. The empirical part focuses on a questionnaire research survey, which was conducted among the patients with celiac disease. The thesis sets itself a goal, based on the discovered results, to evaluate what influence the gluten-free diet has on financial budgets of the repondents, the availability of gluten-free foods and using allowances from health insurance companies. The results of the research were compared to ones..