Monday, April 13, 2009

Poll Results tallied - New Polls added

Here are the results of the set of Poll questions that have been on Gluten Free Raleigh since 3-6-09. I try to put up new poll questions every 30 days or so. I use this information to decide what to research and write about so please vote and let me know what you are interested in!

What symptom lead to your Celiac Diagnosis?
Diarrhea/Constipation 23 (56%)
Fatigue 16 (39%)
Stomach Pain 19 (46%)
Anemia 9 (21%)
Nausea 7 (17%)
Weight Loss 8 (19%)
Headaches 9 (21%)
Itchy Skin Rash 12 (29%)
Fractures or Thin Bones 1 (2%)
Related AutoImmune Disease 6 (14%)
Depression 7 (17%)
Failure to Thrive 2 (4%)
Asymptomatic 2 (4%)

Votes so far: 41

Which National Celiac Organization do you prefer to make donations to?
NFCA 2 (33%)
CSA 2 (33%)
GIG 2 (33%)
CDF 0 (0%)

Votes so far: 6

I have also added some new Poll Questions to the right side bar. I will continue to put up new Polls often to try to get a better understanding of what readers of this blog would like me to focus on.

Please vote!

2 comments:

Emily said...

Hey Zach, I read the symptoms on your poll and feel compelled to ask that you please don't forget that overweight people can be malnourished, same as underweight people. I lost about 25 lbs the first 6 months on the diet. That was pretty amazing.

There are so many symptoms, it's hard to narrow them down to a few for a poll. I hope that people won't feel like the list above is all-inclusive. Maybe mentioning some of the celiac websites with complete symptom lists (a very helpful list to my family when learning about Celiac was the GIG list of related autoimmune diseases: http://www.gluten.net/downloads/print/Associatedautoimmuneflat.pdf
We were astounded, almost everyone in the Dutch (Celiac) line of my family had one of these diseases!

Zach said...

Emily - Agreed! I am aware there are over 300 symptoms for CD - impossible to have a poll with that many items listed - so I picked a few of the most common ones. Def not an all-inclusive list.

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