What is Celiac Disease - Information Please!
What is Celiac Disease
By Donovan Baldwin
Recently, a relative of mine became aware of a health condition known as Celiac Disease. Also called coeliac disease, this is a condition in which the body becomes unable to effectively make use of certain nutrients. It is generally considered to be a genetically acquired autoimmune disorder of the small intestine.
Celiac Disease is commonly believed to be caused by the body's reaction to wheat gluten, primarily, although other, similar proteins, such as barley and rye, may produce the same reaction. Due to a modification of the protein, the immune system reacts with bowel tissue resulting in an inflammatory reaction leading to an atrophying condition (villous atrophy) which interferes with the absorption of nutrients.
Thus far, the only known immediate and effective treatment is to adopt a gluten-free diet.
Symptoms of Celiac Disease are varied, but the primary three are diarrhoea, weight loss, and fatigue. However, the disease does not always display any or all of these symptoms. In fact, the diagnosis of the disease is made even more difficult in that malabsorption of nutrients, which could be caused by a myriad of unrelated factors, can result in a wide range of symptoms, including the main three listed above!
In fact, some people who have had bariatric surgery, which results in malabsorption of nutrients, have reported symptoms similar to those of Celiac Disease.
Over the next few months, I hope to be placing pieces of Celiac Disease Information on this blog.
There is a great deal of information out there, but it does tend to be scattered. One place which has attempted to gather a wide range of celiac disease information in one spot is Celiac.com, and I recommend anyone interested in learning more visit that website as well.
As I am not a researcher or a doctor, I cannot guarantee that all celiac disease information placed on this blog will be absolutely fact, but I will pass the information on after I have reviewed it to the best of my ability and made an attempt to verigy it, at least superficially.
Thank you and best of luck to you.
Celiac Disease Information
By Donovan Baldwin
Recently, a relative of mine became aware of a health condition known as Celiac Disease. Also called coeliac disease, this is a condition in which the body becomes unable to effectively make use of certain nutrients. It is generally considered to be a genetically acquired autoimmune disorder of the small intestine.
Celiac Disease is commonly believed to be caused by the body's reaction to wheat gluten, primarily, although other, similar proteins, such as barley and rye, may produce the same reaction. Due to a modification of the protein, the immune system reacts with bowel tissue resulting in an inflammatory reaction leading to an atrophying condition (villous atrophy) which interferes with the absorption of nutrients.
Thus far, the only known immediate and effective treatment is to adopt a gluten-free diet.
Symptoms of Celiac Disease are varied, but the primary three are diarrhoea, weight loss, and fatigue. However, the disease does not always display any or all of these symptoms. In fact, the diagnosis of the disease is made even more difficult in that malabsorption of nutrients, which could be caused by a myriad of unrelated factors, can result in a wide range of symptoms, including the main three listed above!
In fact, some people who have had bariatric surgery, which results in malabsorption of nutrients, have reported symptoms similar to those of Celiac Disease.
Over the next few months, I hope to be placing pieces of Celiac Disease Information on this blog.
There is a great deal of information out there, but it does tend to be scattered. One place which has attempted to gather a wide range of celiac disease information in one spot is Celiac.com, and I recommend anyone interested in learning more visit that website as well.
As I am not a researcher or a doctor, I cannot guarantee that all celiac disease information placed on this blog will be absolutely fact, but I will pass the information on after I have reviewed it to the best of my ability and made an attempt to verigy it, at least superficially.
Thank you and best of luck to you.
Celiac Disease Information
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