r/interesting • u/Stock_Side_9726 • 20d ago

Wholesome Mister Memphis here into the yearbook 🤩

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Girl with celiac disease takes her alert dog to school everyday and he made it into the school yearbook, how wholesome this is really ❤️‍🩹

It heals my heart

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u/BabyRex- 20d ago

https://theceliacsociety.org/position_sg/statement-on-the-effectiveness-of-gluten-detection-dogs-for-patients-with-celiac-disease/

The experts say no

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u/AlexandersWonder 20d ago

That link says there is a lack of standardized training, proof of efficacy, and that it’s expensive to train a service dog. It doesn’t seem to rule out the possibility that such a dog could exist, but they point to other more methods like effective labeling as having better proof of efficacy as well as being substantially more cost effective.

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u/matjam 20d ago

Primarily, it’s crucial to note that detection dogs are trained to identify odors. As gluten is an odorless protein, there is a legitimate concern about the accuracy of what the dog is actually alerting to.  

seems pretty clear to me.

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u/RaDiOaCtIvEpUnK 20d ago

Couldn’t it be a change in a persons body they detect? Service dogs that detect seizures or epilepsy smell a change in the persons body. Given celiac disease is when the T cells go to war in your intestines against gluten I’m assuming there’s a huge change in your body they could detect.

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u/matjam 20d ago

Now you’re just speculating.

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u/RaDiOaCtIvEpUnK 20d ago

And you’re just being dismissive.

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u/Aranka_Szeretlek 20d ago

You also cant rule out that homeopathy does anything, yet it doesn't