Celiac Program offers gluten-free diet app
The Celiac Disease Program at Children’s National has created a new digital app for celiac disease and gluten-free diet management.
Celiac disease affects approximately one in 100 children, making it one of the most common conditions in children. To help patients and their families understand more about the disease and live a safe, gluten-free lifestyle, the Celiac Disease Program at Children’s National has created a gluten-free diet app.
The Celiac Disease and Gluten-Free Diet Digital Resource Center app was designed to offer all of the Celiac Disease Program’s educational tools in one place. “We have so many incredibly valuable resources, but all were housed in different places, making it very difficult to show people where to find them,” explains Vanessa Weisbrod, education director of the Celiac Disease program. “We created the app as a way to put everything in one place, but also as a mechanism for sharing our tools with the rest of the world.”
Available through the Apple App Store and Android Marketplace, the app gives users access to a variety of resources, including:
- Safe and unsafe ingredient lists
- Grocery store shopping tips
- Gluten-free recipes accompanied by instructional cooking videos
- Nutrition education
- A monthly podcast
- News feed of hot topics in the celiac and gluten-free community
- Continuing education seminars led by celiac disease and gluten-free diet experts
“We are one of the few celiac programs in the country truly dedicated to developing high quality in-house patient education tools for families living with celiac disease,” says Weisbrod. “As we’ve shown our materials to other programs, they always ask us to share them. Through the app, anyone living a gluten-free lifestyle now has access to these remarkable tools.”
