[Pediatric guidelines for coeliac disease: Treatment and follow-up]

The goal of the treatment is to relieve symptoms, achieve duodenal mucosal healing, avoid long term complications, and ensure children´s appropriate growth, for which it´s necessary to follow a lifelong, nutritionally complete and healthy gluten free diet (GFD). The Celiac Disease Working Group of the Gastroenterology Committee of the Sociedad Argentina de Pediatría developed this guide based on expert consensus, aimed at gastroenterologists, pediatricians and primary care physicians with the objective of updating the following topics: Treatment. Definition of gluten free food. Nutritional approach to children with celiac disease. Clinical, nutritional aspects and laboratory tests that should be monitored at initial controls. The importance of follow up visits, their frequency, which professionals should make up the monitoring team and what should be assessed. How to assess adherence to the GFD and other recommendations.